From rainforest to cane field in Cuba
Subtitle: an environmental history since 1492
By: Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin
Series: Envisioning Cuba
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780807831281; 9780807858585
Subjects: Sugarcane -- Cuba -- History; Sugarcane industry -- Cuba -- History; Forest management -- Cuba -- History
Work titles: De bosque a sabana.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-341) and index
Table of contents: title: The omnipresent forest and the beginnings of the sugar industry; title: Shipbuilding and the sugar industry, 1772-1791; title: The struggle over private ownership of forests, 1792-1815; title: Sugar and the absolute freedom to clear forests, 1815-1876; title: Centralization of the sugar industry and the forests, 1876-1898; title: North American capital and sugar's final assault on the forest, 1898-1926; title: From forests to sugar : an insignificant change?