...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 © 2017 by...

...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...

...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...

...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 University Press...

...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 Press...

...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 . Copyright 2013...

...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 General...

...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 Pentimento...

...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 General...

...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...

..., 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...

... sugar zones in the world market, in a situation in which they could not count on the constant replenishment of new enslaved laborers from Africa. Dave St. Aubyn Gosse's book addresses this issue through a careful analysis of the management of the Jamaican slave plantations between 1807 and 1838. This is...

... 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...

..., and drugs in Latin American history. In some sense, these topics are all children of Sidney W. Mintz's field-making Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). While historians, a lot of them “recovering” economic historians, tend to focus on what Mintz regards as the “outside...

..., historians of the early modern Caribbean have begun to move beyond a traditional focus on sugar plantations by highlighting alternate economic, environmental, and political systems that structured the social lives of enslaved and free people. David M. Stark's Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto...

.... Superficial because we knew very little about how and why Haitians went to Cuba; one-dimensional because most writing about Haitians in Cuba portrays them as a passive workforce under the complete control of US sugar companies. With the publication of Empire's Guestworkers , we now have a much more...

... 2017 The history of the early Spanish Caribbean is often viewed through a sugar-centered framework, in which the historiography of the region foregrounds the experience of enslaved Africans and their descendants laboring on sugar plantations. Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean challenges this...

... cross the war-torn Atlantic Ocean when virtually all other shipping ceased or was severely interrupted by blockades and hostile vessels. 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...

.... 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...

... he was. Bert was author of A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780–1860 (Stanford University Press, 1998), published in Portuguese in 2003. Among his other numerous publications were two in the Hispanic American Historical Review : “Revisiting the Casa...