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Presents the environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus. This book emphasizes the two processes that have had a dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. It demonstrates how the sugar industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.

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"Writing with erudition, but also with an attention to narrative, Funes Monzote demonstrates how, in a colonial context, the search for profits from sugar brought about an irreparable transformation in the ecology of a large, wooded tropical island. - Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan"

From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba An Environmental History since 1492

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 3/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807858585, 978-0807858585
      ISBN10: 0807858587

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      Book Synopsis
      Presents the environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus. This book emphasizes the two processes that have had a dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. It demonstrates how the sugar industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.

      Trade Review
      "Writing with erudition, but also with an attention to narrative, Funes Monzote demonstrates how, in a colonial context, the search for profits from sugar brought about an irreparable transformation in the ecology of a large, wooded tropical island. - Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan"

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