Raising cane in the 'glades:the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 348 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780226349503 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226349500 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | F757 |
CLC: | F757.126.522 |
Call Number: | F757.126.522/H737 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326) and index. From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades. |