...Matthew Casey Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry . By Howard Philip A. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 303 pp. Cloth , $47.50 . Copyright...

...José O. Solá American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934. By césar j. ayala. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 321 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $21.95. 2004 by Duke University...

...Mieko Nishida The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,1775–1810. By selwyn h. h. carrington. Gainesville:University Press of Florida, 2002. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 362 pp. Cloth, $59.95. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews General American...

...Pablo Vila The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955 . By Chamosa Oscar . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 271 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke...

...Dan Rood Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba . By Curry-Machado Jonathan . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 264 pp. Cloth , $85.00...

...Paul E. Lovejoy Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the Seventeenth Century . Edited by verene a. shepherd. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Tables. Notes. Index. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Duke University Press 2007 Book Reviews...

...Juan A. Giusti-Cordero The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595–1630 . By Strum Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. 565 pp. Cloth , $100.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke...

...Adam Rothman Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States. Edited by bernard moitt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Tables. Index. Notes. 203 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Duke University Press 2006 Book Reviews...

...Barry Carr Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868 – 1959 . By McGillivray Gillian . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxiii, 386 pp. Paper, $24.95...

..., capital of the Audiencia of Guatemala. Their final destinations were often rural properties located in or near the Pacific lowlands of modern-day Guatemala and El Salvador, where the largest sugar and indigo plantations counted dozens of Angolans among their enslaved workers. A decided majority of these...

...Francie R. Chassen-López Despite the fact that women were barred from voting and holding public office, by 1895 Juana Catarina Romero (1837–1915) had emerged as the major textile importer, sugar refiner, and “modernizing” political boss ( cacica ) of the city of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico...

... distance — a result of widespread absenteeism — produced a series of distortions in the functioning of the sugar business, in view of the divergent interests of owners residing in the metropolis and their representatives on the ground. Disputes over gains in the short term and the long term often put them...

... promised Cuba a discount on the United States’ protectionist tariff rates. Despite the bilateral trade treaty, however, the “intimacy” promised by McKinley did not extend to commercial relations. Cuba’s internationally minded entrepreneurs wanted free trade; North Ameri- can sugar-beet farmers and...

...Paul Gootenberg In books about chocolate and sugar, it is customary to laud each chapter as a real treat. Indeed, this book proves how exceptionally well historical archaeologists and anthropologists write, one stilted exception aside, with evocative detail, beautifully construed narratives, and...

... Caribbean's export-oriented sugar plantation economy was replaced by one in which diversified farms raised subsistence crops and livestock for regional trade markets. Much of the work in the hato economy, as it is known, was performed by a free and unfree rural black workforce that has remained largely...

... economy, typified by the hato. Relative to sugar plantations, hatos required few laborers and allowed more time for provision farming, both of which had an ameliorative effect on the hardships of slavery. The result was a stable slave population that, Stark argues, did not rely on the regular introduction...

... . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 A second major contribution of the book is to counter the common portrayal of Haitians in Cuba as passive cheap labor whose sole function was to work as cane cutters. Casey shows that to the contrary, the occupational structures of sugar plantations were...

... market. They do note the steady massacre of preindustrial cultures as the period progresses. They then move on to the ups and downs of trade in agricultural commodities: grains, stimulants, sugar, coffee, tea, and chocolate, along with others. The discussions of grains and sugars are broken down into the...

... administration. However, many studies of the Spanish and Portuguese empires' agricultural products focused not on tobacco but rather on sugar. Seminal works such as Manuel Moreno Fraginals's El ingenio: El complejo económico social cubano del azúcar (1964) and Stuart B. Schwartz's Sugar Plantations in the...

... Tibesar Prize, awarded for the best article in a given year in The Americas by the Conference on Latin American History. Another major publication, “Persistence and Decline: Slave Labour and Sugar Production in the Bahian Recôncavo, 1850–1888,” appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies . As a...