Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Social and Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas

by Laird W. Bergad

Among the factors inhibiting development of diversified economic structures in many Caribbean and Latin American countries, the persistence of monoculture plays a crucial role. Examining Cuba as a case study, Laird Bergad uses extensive data from Cuban archival sources to analyze the social and economic structures of a country shaped by monocultural sugar production since the mid-eighteenth century. He focuses on Matanzas, the center of the Cuban...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691078165
• ISBN13: 9780691078168
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"