American Sugar Kingdom

American Sugar Kingdom
Author: César J. Ayala
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807867977


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Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.


American Sugar Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: César J. Ayala
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discont
American Sugar Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: César J. Ayala
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discont
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Pages: 321
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Focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, & the Dominican Republic in the early 20th cent. Analyzes & comp
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Pages: 437
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Plantation Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Richard Follett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees. In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets