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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Tác giả chính: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Tiếng Tây Ban Nha
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2008.
Loạt:Envisioning Cuba.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807888865_funes_monzote
Mục lục:
  • 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?