From rainforest to cane field in Cuba

by Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, , De bosque a sabana.
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Series: Envisioning Cuba Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xv, 357 p. : ill., maps. Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-341) and index.

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 and the forests, 1876-1898 -- North American capital and sugar's final assault on the forest, 1898-1926 -- From forests to sugar : an insignificant change?

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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