From rainforest to cane field in Cuba an environmental history since 1492 /

Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969-

From rainforest to cane field in Cuba an environmental history since 1492 / [electronic resource] : Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. - xv, 357 p. : ill., maps. - Envisioning Cuba . - Envisioning Cuba. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-341) and index.

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?


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Sugarcane--History.--Cuba
Sugarcane industry--History.--Cuba
Forest management--History.--Cuba


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