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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?