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Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida

Gail M. Hollander
4.9/5 (9350 ratings)
Description:Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. "a"At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990s was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological OC restorationOCO of the Everglades.a "Raising Cane in the OCOGlades" is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of FloridaOCOs sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially CubaOCowhich emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional OC otherOCO to FloridaOCOs OC self.OCOa Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the OC sugar questionOCOOCoa label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and tradeOCoemerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. To get started finding Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
367
Format
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Release
2014
ISBN
0226349489

Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida

Gail M. Hollander
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. "a"At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990s was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological OC restorationOCO of the Everglades.a "Raising Cane in the OCOGlades" is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of FloridaOCOs sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially CubaOCowhich emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional OC otherOCO to FloridaOCOs OC self.OCOa Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the OC sugar questionOCOOCoa label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and tradeOCoemerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. To get started finding Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
367
Format
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Publisher
Not Avail
Release
2014
ISBN
0226349489
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