From rainforest to cane field in Cuba [electronic resource] : an environmental history since 1492 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin.

By: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Envisioning CubaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008Description: xv, 357 p. : ill., mapsUniform titles: De bosque a sabana. English Subject(s): Sugarcane -- Cuba -- History | Sugarcane industry -- Cuba -- History | Forest management -- Cuba -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.75/137097291 LOC classification: SB229.C9 | F8613 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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?
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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.

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