Sugar And Power In The Caribbean
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Sugar And Power In The Caribbean
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Author : Humberto Garcia Muniz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Sugar And Power In The Caribbean written by Humberto Garcia Muniz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with categories.
Sugar And Power In The Caribbean
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Author : Humberto García Muñíz
language : en
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Sugar And Power In The Caribbean written by Humberto García Muñíz and has been published by Ian Randle Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Sugar trade categories.
Black Labor White Sugar
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Author : Philip A. Howard
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Black Labor White Sugar written by Philip A. Howard and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with History categories.
Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands of black workers from other Caribbean colonies, primarily Haiti and Jamaica. Black Labor, White Sugar illuminates the story of these immigrants, their exploitation by the sugarcane companies, and the strategies they used to fight back. Philip A. Howard traces the socioeconomic and political circumstances in Haiti and Jamaica that led men to leave their homelands to cut, load, and haul sugarcane in Cuba. Once there, the field workers, or braceros, were subject to marginalization and even violence from the sugar companies, which used structures of race, ethnicity, color, and class to subjugate these laborers. Howard argues that braceros drew on their cultural identities-from concepts of home and family to spiritual worldviews-to interpret and contest their experiences in Cuba. They also fought against their exploitation in more overt ways. As labor conditions worsened in response to falling sugar prices, the principles of anarcho-syndicalism converged with the Pan-African philosophy of Marcus Garvey to foster the evolution of a protest culture among black Caribbean laborers. By the mid-1920s, this identity encouraged many braceros to participate in strikes that sought to improve wages as well as living and working conditions. The first full-length exploration of Haitian and Jamaican workers in the Cuban sugarcane industry, Black Labor, White Sugar examines the industry's abuse of thousands of black Caribbean immigrants, and the braceros' answering struggle for power and self-definition.
Sweetness And Power
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Author : Sidney W. Mintz
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1986-08-05
Sweetness And Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-08-05 with History categories.
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
The Sugar Barons
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Author : Matthew Parker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-31
The Sugar Barons written by Matthew Parker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-31 with History categories.
For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. Young men, beset by death and disease, an ocean away from the moral anchors of life in Britain, created immense dynastic wealth but produced a society poisoned by war, sickness, cruelty and corruption. The Sugar Barons explores the lives and experiences of those whose fortunes rose and fell with the West Indian empire. From the ambitious and brilliant entrepreneurs, to the grandees wielding power across the Atlantic, to the inheritors often consumed by decadence, disgrace and madness, this is the compelling story of how a few small islands and a handful of families decisively shaped the British Empire.
The Cultural Politics Of Sugar
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Author : Keith A. Sandiford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-10
The Cultural Politics Of Sugar written by Keith A. Sandiford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-10 with Business & Economics categories.
This 2000 study examines the work of six influential authors of the colonial West Indies whose central metaphor is sugar.
Puerto Rico
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Author : Gordon K. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1963
Puerto Rico written by Gordon K. Lewis and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with History categories.
"Since its first publication over forty years ago Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis has established itself, and even today, remains the definitive book on that Caribbean island. Lewis treats the subject historically and descriptively; on the one hand, it is an account of Puerto Rico as a colony, first under Spain and after 1898, under the United States. On the other hand, it is a systematic analysis of contemporary Puerto Rican life, including its politics, economic organisation and socio-political make-up, which is as relevant for this new edition as it was forty years ago. The book is also an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study of US Federalism or as a so-called 'showcase of democracy'."--BOOK JACKET.
Sugar Island Slavery In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Arthur L. Stinchcombe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995-12-11
Sugar Island Slavery In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Arthur L. Stinchcombe and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-11 with History categories.
Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from his own much admired Economic Sociology to show why sugar planters needed the help of repressive governments for recruiting disciplined labor. Demonstrating that island-to-island variations on this theme were a function of geography, local political economy, and relation to outside powers, he scrutinizes Caribbean slavery and Caribbean emancipation movements in a world-historical context. Throughout the book, Stinchcombe aims to develop a sociology of freedom that explains a number of complex phenomena, such as how liberty for some individuals may restrict the liberty of others. Thus, the autonomous governments of colonies often produced more oppressive conditions for slaves than did so-called arbitrary governments, which had the power to restrict the whims of the planters. Even after emancipation, freedom was not a clear-cut matter of achieving the ideals of the Enlightenment. Indeed, it was often a route to a social control more efficient than slavery, providing greater flexibility for the planter class and posing less risk of violent rebellion.
American Sugar Kingdom
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Author : César J. Ayala
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-15
American Sugar Kingdom written by César J. Ayala and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-15 with History categories.
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. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. 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.
Sugar And Slavery
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Author : Richard B. Sheridan
language : en
Publisher: Canoe Press (IL)
Release Date : 1994
Sugar And Slavery written by Richard B. Sheridan and has been published by Canoe Press (IL) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Business & Economics categories.
This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries.