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Title Page, Copyright 1 Contents 5 Tables 7 Figures and Maps 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 15 1. A Caribbean Plantation System 19 2. The Horizontal Consolidation of the U.S. Sugar Refining Industry 37 3. The Sugar Tariff and Vertical Integration 62 4. Vertical Integration in the Colonies 88 5. The Colonos 135 6. Labor and Migration 162 7. The Twentieth-Century Plantation 197 8. Economic Collapse and Revolution 245 Epilogue 262 Notes 265 Bibliography 301 Index 323 Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press,Published:1999,ISBN:9781469605050,Related ISBN:9780807825068,Language:English,OCLC:655598870 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. César 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 hist

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Author

César J. Ayala

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807847886

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Business