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Rice in the time of sugar : the political economy of food in Cuba
- Title
- Rice in the time of sugar : the political economy of food in Cuba / Louis A. Pérez Jr.
- Author
- Pérez, Louis A., Jr., 1943-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 249 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Pérez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place"--
- Subjects
- Balance of trade
- Food supply
- Sugarcane industry > Social aspects
- History
- Cuba > Foreign economic relations
- Balance of trade > Cuba > History
- Sugarcane industry > Social aspects > Cuba
- Economic history
- Food supply > Cuba > History
- International economic relations
- Exports > Social aspects > Cuba
- Cuba > Economic conditions > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prosperity so easily obtained -- Passing into economic darkness -- An uncertain source of wealth -- To overcome sugar -- To tremble in fear -- To return to what was before "plus ça change".
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7032
- ISBN
- 9781469651415
- 1469651416
- 9781469651422
- 1469651424
- LCCN
- 2018051397
- OCLC
- 1053584125
- Author
- Pérez, Louis A., Jr., 1943- author.
- Title
- Rice in the time of sugar : the political economy of food in Cuba / Louis A. Pérez Jr.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7032