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Livre 11 sur 36: Envisioning Cuba

Funes Monzote, Reinaldo

 
9780807858585: From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Envisioning Cuba)
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ISBN 10 : 0807858587 ISBN 13 : 9780807858585
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba -- and upon which Cuba urgently depended -- also devastated the ecology of the island.

The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.

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À propos des auteurs

Reinaldo Funes Monzote is associate professor of history at the University of Havana.

Alex Martin is an independent translator living in Maryland.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807858587
ISBN 13 
9780807858585
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
378
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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