| #1769030 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2009-11-23 | 2009-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.13 x1.04 x6.13l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | |||
“Lucidly written, sophisticated, marvelously nuanced, and meticulously researched. . . . This is simply superb history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” - F. W. Knight, Choice
Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island’s population depended on sugar production for its livelihood. In Blazing Cane, Gillian McGillivray examines the development of social classes linked to sugar production, and their contribution to the formation and transformation of the state, from the first Cuban Revolution for Independence in 1868 t...
You easily download any file type for your device.Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868–1959 (American Encounters/Global Interactions) | Gillian McGillivray. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
