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American sugar kingdom : the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 /

"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."--...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ayala, César J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Caribbean plantation system
  • The horizontal consolidation of the U.S. sugar refining industry
  • The sugar tariff and vertical integration
  • Vertical integration in the colonies
  • The colonos
  • Labor and migration
  • The twentieth-century plantation
  • Economic collapse and revolution.