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Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

Herausgeber: Bosma, Ulbe; Knight, G. Roger; Giusti-Cordero, Juan A.

Beschreibung

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed...

Autor

Juan A. Giusti-Cordero is Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He has written extensively on Puerto Rican and Caribbean social history and is author of Land, Community, and Resistance in Piñones (Loíza), 18th-19th Centuries (forthcoming).

Produktdetails

• International Studies in Social History
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781845457846
• ISBN-10: 1845457846
• Artikelnr.: 30192158