Ayala, César J. <br/><br/>
American sugar kingdom  the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 / 
César J. Ayala. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  (c)1999. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469605050 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sugar trade--History--Cuba--20th century.<br/>Sugar trade--History--Puerto Rico--20th century.<br/>Sugar trade--History--Dominican Republic--20th century.<br/>Sugar trade--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9114  / .A447 1999