From rainforest to cane field in Cuba : an environmental history since 1492 / / Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin.
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| Superior document: | Envisioning Cuba |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Series: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 357 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?