Description
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of the intersections between nature, economy, and nation in the Spanish Caribbean through a history of the agricultural and botanical sciences.
Trade ReviewMcCook writes in a clear and effective style. His approach to the subject is neither overly theoretical nor oversimplified. * Bulletin of the Pacific Circle *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Science, Nature, and Development during the Export Boom, 1760-1940
- 1. Commodity and Country: The Rediscovery of Nature in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1890
- 2. Giving Plants a Civil Status: Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Venezuela and Costa Rica, 1885-1935
- 3. Building Creole Science: Science and Ideologies of Agricultural Development in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1930
- 4. Agricultural Science and the Ecological Rationalization of the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1780-1930
- 5. Promoting the "Practical": Technocratic Ideologies of Science and Progress in an Age of Fragile Prosperity, 1924-1930
- 6. Conclusion: The Great Depression, the Plant Sciences, and Changing Paradigms of Agricultural Development, 1928-1940
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
