From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : An Environmental History since 1492 /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Español
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Zuckerrohranbau
Rodung
Regenwald
Sugarcane industry.
Sugarcane.
Forest management.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Forêts > Gestion > Cuba > Histoire.
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Cuba > Histoire.
Canne à sucre > Cuba > Histoire.
Forest management > Cuba > History.
Sugarcane industry > Cuba > History.
Sugarcane > Cuba > History.
Kuba.
Cuba.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (384 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469604671

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