American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 - Softcover

Ayala, Cesar J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807847887 ISBN 13: 9780807847886

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.

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Review:

A very welcome addition to the historiography of the Caribbean and to development-underdevelopment theory.

"Business History Review"

"As meticulous in its research as it is evocative in its approach, Ayala's book is, without doubt, a significant contribution.

"Journal of American History""

Both a contribution to the study of the sugar industry in the Caribbean and an examination of the processes of American imperialism.

"American Historical Review"

"An original work of tremendous interest to scholars concerned with Caribbean history, economic geography, corporate agriculture, and the political economy.

"Cuban Studies""

"[This book] excels in providing a coherent comparative analysis of capitalist underdevelopment in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

"Latin American Research Review""

As meticulous in its research as it is evocative in its approach, Ayala's book is, without doubt, a significant contribution.

"Journal of American History"

An original work of tremendous interest to scholars concerned with Caribbean history, economic geography, corporate agriculture, and the political economy.

"Cuban Studies"

ÝThis book¨ excels in providing a coherent comparative analysis of capitalist underdevelopment in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

"Latin American Research Review"

[This book] excels in providing a coherent comparative analysis of capitalist underdevelopment in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

"Latin American Research Review"

About the Author:

Cesar J. Ayala is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807847887
• ISBN 13: 9780807847886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336