Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida / Gail M. Hollander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollander, Gail M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--Florida--Everglades.

Sugar trade.

Drainage--Florida--Everglades.

Drainage.

Rural development--Florida--Everglades.

Rural development.

Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Florida--Everglades.

Sugar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990's was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological "restoration" of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the 'Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida's sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba-which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional "other" to Florida's "self." Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the "sugar question"-a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade-emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.

Contents:

From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again?

The sugar question in frontier Florida

Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades

Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape

The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl

A restructured industry

Questioning sugar in the Everglades.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326) and index.

ISBN:

9786612426605

9781282426603

1282426605

9780226349480

0226349489

OCLC:

474963730