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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Romina Robles Ruvalcaba Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula . By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2020 . 192 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 349–372.
Published: 01 July 2011
... for sugarcane cultivation. However, the documentation of Caguas shows the opposite. Regarding who cultivated food crops, see, Perloff , Puerto Rico's Economic Future , 85 . For Caguas, see, 1866–1901 , AHMC. 10. United States Census , Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the 1910...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Peter Griggs Abstract Sugarcane emerged by 1884 as the most favored crop cultivated in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia between Cairns and Grafton. Initially, Australian canegrowers invested as little labor and capital as possible. Contemporary commentators, however, were very critical...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 513–535.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Marc McLeod Abstract This article explores the nature and meaning of sugarcane arson in Cuba during the first four decades of the twentieth century. In the scholarly literature as well as popular memory, the illegal burning of sugarcane has been seen as an important means by which marginalized...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 344–346.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Jeffrey T. Manuel Proálcool also caused labor strife in the agro-industrial sugarcane regions of São Paulo. Sweet Fuel offers good background on the shift from permanent to temporary labor in Brazil's cane fields during the second half of the twentieth century. Describing the grueling...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2016
...., $45.00, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8248-4000-6. This detailed, articulate institutional history examines one hundred eighty years of technology on Hawaiian sugarcane plantations. The authors, botanist c. allan Jones and agronomist robert V. osgood, both with professional experience in the Hawaiian sugar...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., and environmentalists who advocated for, or fought against, the expansion of sugarcane plantings and ethanol production in Brazil from the end of World War I to the present. The book places into comparative international context Brazil's embrace of agricultural modernization and grounds Brazil's version of the Green...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2008
... at the supermarket. Paul D. Peterson University ofMinnesota ReinventingtheCuban SugarAgroindustryE.dited by JorgeF. Perez Lopez and Jose Alvarez. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. 323 pp., $27.00,paperback, ISBN 0-7391-1000-4. Sugarcane is amarvelous collector of solar energy but a degrader of the soil...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 April 2021
... discussions. Fernando Herrera Calderón University of Northern Iowa Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula. By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. 192 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. In Sugarcane...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 461–490.
Published: 01 October 2018
... young cane shoots while steadily sapping the bodies of those enslaved. The enslaved workers simultaneously fight against the Caribbean environment clearing fields, digging holes, fighting dehydration and sunburn while working with that same environment: the sun and water for the growth of the sugarcane...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 609–647.
Published: 01 July 2000
...Peter Griggs Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 Percy Philip
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, Plantation Agriculture (London: Bell and Hyman, 1980 ), 33 -36 Jock
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, The Sugarcane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... Sugarcane researchers and plantation managers bred new varieties of sugarcane, developed new irrigation methods, and built new harvesting and milling equipment. as a result, Hawai i became the greatest producer of sugar both per acre of cane and per plantation worker. The term factories in the field...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 336–357.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., 1439, leg. 1280, Sección Nobleza, Osuna, AHN. 23. In order to compare the magnitude of the profits derived from sugarcane, these four hundred forty sous are equivalent to the approximately eleven cafissos (2,211 liters) of wheat sold originally for forty sous, an exorbitant price, which was enough...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 282–283.
Published: 01 April 2011
... dominated by sugarcane cultivation. No one group dominated production, as factories relied on middle- and small-size landholdings that produced other agricultural commodities alongside cane. On the other hand, some factory owners clearly exploited rural workers. These workers were paid based on the tarea...
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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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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... Perez Lopez and Jose Alvarez. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. 323 pp., $27.00,paperback, ISBN 0-7391-1000-4. Sugarcane is amarvelous collector of solar energy but a degrader of the soil. As a commodity, sugarcane is a way of life for communities throughout the tropics, an industry, a feedstock...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and sugarcane in the early twentieth century. “After the devastation with the Panama Disease, then everybody had to just stick in the canes. . . . Because when Panama Disease now, the officers come in and they just cut down an acre today, cut down an acre tomorrow, and they just cutting down all the bananas...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 248–252.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the idea that humans (and other creatures) might be predisposed to eat sweet-tasting things. This insight is helpful for appreciating the near-global circulation of sugarcane in the modern world and the long march of Coca-Cola. Mintz, however, instructively identified several other sources of sweetness...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of Mississippi, 2011. 440 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-60473-798-1. With the exception of sugarcane, no crop has been more associated with poverty and suffering than cotton. Of course, an agricultural commodity never enslaved anybody, made them poor, or caused their soil to wash away. People and their modes...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 565–566.
Published: 01 October 2013
... sugarcane fields to Tanzania s highlands, Himalayan forests to the Taiwan Strait, a mere forty-three of the volume s nine hundred six citations come from non-English-language texts. Likewise, the authors rarely employ primary sources; only two of the book s twenty-two chapters explicitly refer to archival...
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