César J Ayala, Laird W Bergad

Agrarian Puerto Rico

Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108488464
• ISBN-10: 1108488463
• Artikelnr.: 57122318

Autorenporträt

César J. Ayala is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 (1999) and co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of maps
Introduction
1. The myth of the disappeared legion of proprietors
2. The coffee economy
3. The sugar industry
4. The tobacco industry
5. Economic transformation and demographic change
6. Land concentration/fragmentation using land-tax records
7. Rates of land ownership in rural Puerto Rico
8. Land tenure patterns using census data
9. Land use
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.