TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pérez,Louis A.
TI  - Rice in the time of sugar: the political economy of food in Cuba 
SN  - 9781469651439
AV  - HC152 .R534 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Exports
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Sugarcane industry
KW  - Balance of trade
KW  - History
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; Prosperity so easily obtained --; Passing into economic darkness --; An uncertain source of wealth --; To overcome sugar --; To tremble in fear --; To return to what was before "plus ça change"; 2; b
N2  - "In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Pérez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place"--
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