TY - GEN T1 - From rainforest to cane field in Cuba : an environmental history since 1492 T2 - Envisioning Cuba. A1 - Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- LA - English LA - Spanish PP - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn659482808 AB - 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 history. It demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba urgently depended - also devastated the ecology of the island. OP - 357 CN - SB229.C9 F8613 2008 SN - 9781469604671 SN - 1469604671 SN - 9780807831281 SN - 080783128X SN - 9780807858585 SN - 0807858587 KW - Sugarcane : Cuba : History. KW - Sugarcane industry : Cuba : History. KW - Forest management : Cuba : History. KW - Canne à sucre : Cuba : Histoire. KW - Canne à sucre : Industrie : Cuba : Histoire. KW - Forêts : Gestion : Cuba : Histoire. KW - HISTORY : Caribbean & West Indies : Cuba. KW - Forest management KW - Sugarcane KW - Sugarcane industry KW - Cuba KW - Regenwald KW - Rodung KW - Zuckerrohranbau KW - Kuba. KW - Geschichte 1492-1926. KW - Electronic book. KW - History ER -