Sugar Baron : Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAvoy, Muriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--Cuba.

Sugar trade.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003.

Summary:

"Sugar Baron is a brilliant, highly original narrative of the fluctuating fortunes of Cuba and its sugar industry during the republican period."--Franklin W. Knight, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University "McAvoy's 'subject' is not simply Manuel Rionda as an individual, but the entire history of U.S.-Cuban relations from the Spanish-Cuban-American War to the Revolution of 1933. Believe it or not, such a story can be told from the vantage point of this one individual, and McAvoy has done it in exemplary fashion."--Cesar Ayala, University of California, Los Angeles.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

Merchant at the Crossroads

1. Business with Aliens

2. Head of the Mouse

3. Tarafa and the Genial Shark

4. Cuba Cane

5. A Fixed Price

6. Tail of the Lion

7. The Steel Gray Battleship

8. Visible Hands

9. Receivership and Reorganization

10. Empty Saddlebags

11. From the Wolf, a Pelt

The Roads Taken

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:

9780813073842

0813073847

OCLC:

1512064890