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.