From rainforest to cane field in Cuba an environmental history since 1492 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Envisioning Cuba
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10355404 |
Table of 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?