American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 by Cesar J. Ayala (Author)

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 by Cesar J. Ayala (Author)

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ISBN: 9780807847886

Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press, November 1, 1999

Paperback, 336 pages

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.