American Sugar Kingdom
The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934
C Ayala
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2009
Pages: 336
Subject: History, Business and Economics
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807867976
DESCRIPTION
Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.