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Rice in the time of sugar : the political economy of food in Cuba

Pâerez, Louis A., Jr., 1943- author

Overview

\"In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pâerez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Pâerez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: Exports Social aspects Cuba. / Sugarcane industry Social aspects Cuba. / Balance of trade Cuba History. / Food supply Cuba History. / Cuba Foreign economic relations. / Cuba Economic conditions History.
• ISBN: 9781469651415, 1469651416, 9781469651422, 1469651424

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HC152.5.P473 2019	1	BOOK	BUSINESS