American sugar kingdom : the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 /

American sugar kingdom : the plantation economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ayala, César J., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Sugar trade -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century. Sugar trade -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century. Sugar trade -- Dominican Republic -- History -- 20th century. Sugar trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Sugar trade. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227424

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ISBN:	9781469605050 1469605058 0807825069 9780807825068 0807847887 9780807847886
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Ayala, César J. American sugar kingdom. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999

Table of Contents:

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.