From rainforest to cane field in Cuba : an environmental history since 1492 /
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 demo...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina španělština |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
©2008.
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| Edice: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807888865_funes_monzote |
Obsah:
- 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?