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American sugar kingdom the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469605050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD9114 .A447 1999
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The horizontal consolidation of the U.S. sugar refining industry -- The sugar tariff and vertical integration -- Vertical integration in the colonies -- The colonos -- Labor and migration -- The twentieth-century plantation -- Economic collapse and revolution.
Subject: "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."--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

A Caribbean plantation system -- The horizontal consolidation of the U.S. sugar refining industry -- The sugar tariff and vertical integration -- Vertical integration in the colonies -- The colonos -- Labor and migration -- The twentieth-century plantation -- Economic collapse and revolution.

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

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