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Rice in the Time of Sugar : The Political Economy of Food in Cuba /

"In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Perez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for c...

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Autor principal: Perez, Louis A., Jr., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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