The omnipresent forest and the beginnings of the sugar industry -- Shipbuilding and the sugar industry, 1772@-1791 -- The struggle over private ownership of forests, 1792@-1815 -- Sugar and the absolute freedom to clear forests, 1815@-1876 -- Centralization of the sugar industry…
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlem…
This environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus emphasises the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. The book considers Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental histo…
In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of the South -- the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. In contrast to the various forms of sharecropping and tenancy that rep…
"In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of the South - the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. In contrast to the various forms of sharecropping and tenancy that rep…
