El azúcar en América Latina y el Caribe: Cambio tecnológico, trabajo, mercado mundial y economía azucarera: Perspectiva histórica y problemas actuales Available to Purchase

Since the sixteenth century, one of the most important agricultural commodities produced and exported from Latin America and the Caribbean has been sugar. Historians such as Horacio Crespo (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos) have dedicated a significant portion of their professional careers to analyzing the impact of sugar on the economic and social history of the region. The inception of El azúcar en América Latina y el Caribe dates to a January 1985 symposium hosted by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Scholarly interest in sugar, especially the relationship between the regulation of the international sugar market and state intervention in its production, was reinvigorated in October 2004 at an economic history conference hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de México. Many of the scholars who participated in the 1985 symposium attended the 2004 conference two decades later. With considerable encouragement from academic and governmental sectors,...