Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1962
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: César J. Ayala
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0807867977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.
Author: Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1986-08-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1101666641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Moon-Ho Jung
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-04
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780801882814
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Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 2021-02
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ISBN-13: 9781663604583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives, but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations, here is the story of bow one product moved the grand currents of world history. Book jacket.