King Sugar: Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Industry

by Michele Harrison

Book Overview

What is life like on a sugar plantation at the end of the twentieth century? What will happen if the sugar industry collapses? How do the poverty-stricken cane cutters of rural Jamaica fit into the global economy? And how does sugar make its way from the canefield to our kitchens?
The Carribean's history is inseparable from sugar. In Jamaica entire communities depend on the sugar industry, earning a precarious living on old-fashioned plantations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814736343
• ISBN13: 9780814736340
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"