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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ayala, César J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.