The sweet and the bitter: Cuban and Puerto Rican responses to the mid-nineteenth-century sugar challenge
Comparative study of the mid-19th-c. world market sugar pressures in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Both colonies responded differently to these pressures, a reflection of divergent levels of capital resources and adaptability. The Cubans sought to expand sugar production, while planters in Puerto Rico fell...
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| Language: | English |
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BRILL
1993-01-01
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| Series: | NWIG |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3309 |