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

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Autore principale: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
spagnolo
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Serie:Envisioning Cuba.
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Sommario:
  • 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?