States of Nature : : Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940 / / Stuart George McCook.
The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Science, Nature, and Development during the Export Boom, 1760 –1940
- One COMMODITY AND COUNTRY The Rediscovery of Nature in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760 –1890
- Two GIVING PLANTS A CIVIL STATUS Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Venezuela and Costa Rica, 1885–1935
- Three BUILDING CREOLE SCIENCE Science and Ideologies of Agricultural Development in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1930
- Four AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL RATIONALIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN SUGAR INDUSTRY, 1780 – 1930
- Five PROMOTING THE “PRACTICAL” Technocratic Ideologies of Science and Progress in an Age of Fragile Prosperity, 1924 –1930
- Six CONCLUSION The Great Depression, the Plant Sciences, and Changing Paradigms of Agricultural Development, 1928–1940
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX