Sweet Cane documents an important and little-known phase of Florida?s history, drawing from recent historical and archaeological research currently available only in professional journals and reports. Overviews antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar indust…
From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at least 22 sugar plantations dotted the coastline by th…
La quatrième de couverture indique: "This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the history of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demonstrates the dynamism of cash-crop production…
"This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the history of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demonstrates the dynamism of cash-crop production systems and how these systems influ…
"This work discusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba. The book reveals that much can be learned about Cuba's revolutionary and republican periods through a look at worker and farmer mobilization."--Source : …
Offers a new understanding of the history of Cuba from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cuban revolution by showing the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities.
This work discusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba. The book reveals that much can be learned about Cuba's revolutionary and republican periods through a look at worker and farmer mobilization.
