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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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100 | 1 | |a Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, |d 1969- |e author. | |
240 | 1 | 0 | |a De bosque a sabana. |l English |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : |b An Environmental History since 1492 / |c Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin. |
264 | 1 | |a Chapel Hill : |b University of North Carolina Press, |c 2008. | |
264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
264 | 4 | |c ©2008. | |
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490 | 0 | |a Envisioning Cuba | |
505 | 0 | |a 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? | |
520 | 8 | |a 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 demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba urgently depended - also devastated the ecology of the island. | |
588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
650 | 7 | |a Zuckerrohranbau |2 gnd | |
650 | 7 | |a Rodung |2 gnd | |
650 | 7 | |a Regenwald |2 gnd | |
650 | 7 | |a Sugarcane industry. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01137522 | |
650 | 7 | |a Sugarcane. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01137481 | |
650 | 7 | |a Forest management. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00932231 | |
650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |x Caribbean & West Indies |z Cuba. |2 bisacsh | |
650 | 6 | |a Forêts |x Gestion |z Cuba |x Histoire. | |
650 | 6 | |a Canne à sucre |x Industrie |z Cuba |x Histoire. | |
650 | 6 | |a Canne à sucre |z Cuba |x Histoire. | |
650 | 0 | |a Forest management |z Cuba |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Sugarcane industry |z Cuba |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Sugarcane |z Cuba |x History. | |
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945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement II | ||
945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Latin American and Caribbean Studies Supplement |