From rainforest to cane field in Cuba : an environmental history since 1492 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote ; translated by Alex Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969-

Series:

Envisioning Cuba.

Envisioning Cuba

Standardized Title:

De bosque a sabana. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugarcane--Cuba--History.

Sugarcane.

Sugarcane industry--Cuba--History.

Sugarcane industry.

Forest management--Cuba--History.

Forest management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

The omnipresent forest and the beginnings of the sugar industry

Shipbuilding and the sugar industry, 1772-1791

The struggle over private ownership of forests, 1792-1815

Sugar and the absolute freedom to clear forests, 1815-1876

Centralization of the sugar industry and the forests, 1876-1898

North American capital and sugar's final assault on the forest, 1898-1926

From forests to sugar : an insignificant change?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-341) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908809-0-1

979-88-908809-1-8

1-4696-0467-1

0-8078-8886-9

OCLC:

609863444