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xi, 312, xiii pages : 19 cm Originally published in Cuba as Contrapunteo Cubano del tabaco y azúcar Includes index By Way of Prologue / Herminio Portell Vila -- I. Cuban Counterpoint -- II. Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings of Sugar in America -- 1. On Cuban Counterpoint -- 2. Social Phenomenon of "Transculturation" and Its Importance -- 3. Concerning Tobacco Seed -- 4. Concerning the Low Nicotine Content of Cuban Tobacco 5. On How Tobacco was Discovered in Cuba by the Europeans -- 6. Tobacco Among the Indians of the Antilles -- 7. Transculturation of Tobacco -- 8. On the Beginnings of the Sugar-Producing Industry in America -- 9. "Cachimbos" and "Cachimbas" -- 10. How the Sugar "Ingenio" Has Always Been the Favored Child of Capitalism -- 11. First Transatlantic Shipments of Sugar -- 12. How Havana Tobacco Embarked Upon Its Conquest of the World

Author

Fernando Ortiz

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

Updated

2026-03-24