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The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 286–288.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Sally G. McMillen Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 . Richard Follett . Agricultural History Spring The second group comprised English agricultural laborers and unskilled workers tired of low...
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Razing Cane: Making Sense of Arson in the Sugar Fields of Republican Cuba
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 513–535.
Published: 01 October 2015
... efforts by government officials and plantation managers to prevent cane fires, a number of groups—including colonos (cane farmers) as well as cane cutters—regularly ignited sugar fields for their own purposes. Using sugarcane arson as an analytical lens thus provides a more nuanced picture of agrarian...
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From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai'i's Premier Crop
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Lawrence H. Kessler From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai'i's Premier Crop . By C. Allan Jones and Robert V. Osgood . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2015 . 288 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-4000-6. © 2016...
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Raising Cane in the ’Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 262–263.
Published: 01 April 2010
...José Alvarez Raising Cane in the ’Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida . Gail M. Hollander . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring This work,however,has some flaws.Long blockquotationsare found throughouTt.he authorsfailto...
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Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868–1959
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Brian Pollitt Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868–1959 . By Gillian McGillivray . Durham : Duke University Press , 2009 . 416 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-08223-452-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...
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Global Industry, Local Innovation: The History of Cane Sugar Production in Australia, 1820–1995
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 132–134.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Don Garden Global Industry, Local Innovation: The History of Cane Sugar Production in Australia, 1820–1995 . By Peter D. Griggs . Bern : Peter Lang , 2011 . 964 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-3-0343-0431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...
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Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 703–704.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Robert Tracy McKenzie Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880 . John C. Rodrigue . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 703 Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor...
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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 251–253.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Gordon H. Chang Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation . Moon-Ho Jung . 2008 BookReviews laws, zoning bylaws, or military service laws confront centuries-old Amish beliefs. Little conflict seems topervade...
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Atlantic Environments and the American South
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 540–542.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Cane West Atlantic Environments and the American South . Edited by Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2020 . 226 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780820356693. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 540 Agricultural History...
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Improving Agricultural Practices: Science and the Australian Sugarcane Grower, 1864–1915
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
... factor was a lack of scientific knowledge about farming under Australian conditions. By 1891 cane-growing techniques were reported to be "on the upgrade," with improved cane and sugar yields. Such a transformation had commenced due to the introduction of some mechanization and the dissemination...
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Reports on Philippine Industrial Crops in World War II from Japan’s English Language Press
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 January 2005
... wealth. Washington’s pre-war oil embargo severely crippled military and civilian transport services throughout the war, and Japan’s conversion of cane sugar into fuel alcohol and butane for aviation fuel failed to generate successful outcomes. Also, as the Pacific War eliminated cotton imports from...
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The Fall of the Barbados Planter Class: An Interpretation of the 1980s Crisis in the Barbados Sugar Industry
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 329–345.
Published: 01 July 2001
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, The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography From its Origins to 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 ), 80 -83
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, "The Sugar Industry in Barbados during the Seventeenth Cen¬ tury," Journal of Tropical Geography19, no. 2 ( 1964 ): 35 -41...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of these smallholders who had been producing sugar for local markets began selling their sugar for export. Rather than refining the cane themselves and selling it at markets, smallholders living near factories began directly selling their freshly cut cane to these factories. 64 For those in more isolated areas...
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Capitalism and Atrocity: Ulbe Bosma's The World of Sugar
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 102–107.
Published: 01 February 2025
... takes sugar's story into the present, he also tracks such trends as the growth of sugar for ethanol, the rise of the sugar multinationals, the environmental consequences of mass cane production, and the ways that sugar policies in the Global North have affected the Global South. It is clear from...
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Sugar Plantations in Queensland, 1864–1912: Origins, Characteristics, Distribution, and Decline
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 609–647.
Published: 01 July 2000
... markets. Plantations or vertically integrated agroindustrial units combined both growing the cane and processing it into sugar in what was frequently referred to as the Labat system after Pere Labat, a French cleric who lived in the West Indies in the eighteenth century and wrote descriptions of sugar...
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Colonialism, Planters, Sugarcane, and The Agrarian Economy of Caguas, Puerto Rico, Between the 1890s and 1930
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 349–372.
Published: 01 July 2011
... : Columbia University Press , 1938 ); Bailey W. Diffie and Justine Whitfield Diffie , Porto Rico: A Broken Pledge ( New York : Vanguard Press , 1931 ); Jorge J. Serrallés , Farm Prices and Price Relationships of Sugar and Sugar Cane in Puerto Rico From 1910 to 1945 ( Río Piedras...
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The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 419–420.
Published: 01 July 2011
... with sugar. Despite having lost its preeminence in Brazil s cane industry to southern producers, the region still reveals the deep and open wounds left by centuries of monoculture. In this fascinating study, Thomas D. Rogers uncovers the changes experienced by the zona da mata as a result of sugarcane...
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Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... Chapter 4, “How Brazil's National Alcohol Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers,” shows that workers had to bring their children to complete their daily “tasks” after a group of São Paulo producers, seeking to save on labor and fuel costs, insisted that workers cut more rows of cane and move the cane...
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“The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 461–490.
Published: 01 October 2018
... , 2014 ). Some scholars, however, have challenged Baptist’s conclusions; see, for example, Alan L. Olmstead , “Antebellum US Cotton Production and Slavery in the Indian Mirror,” Agricultural History 91 , no. 1 (Winter 2017 ): 5 – 33 . On the dangers of poorly cut cane, see Ligon...
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Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Río Piedras, Puerto Rico , Bulletin No. 44 (San Juan: Uni¬ versity of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, 1937 ) 5 John A. Stevenson, "The ’Mottling’ Disease of Cane," Annual Report of the Insular Experiment Station, 1916–1917, 40–41, 63–65 Rafael...
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