J. Curry-Machado

Cuban Sugar Industry (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cuba's development, this book explores the development of the Cuban sugar industry and how the country became bound into global networks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230118881
• Artikelnr.: 46752425

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN CURRY-MACHADO is a Fellow at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in the University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Steam and Sugarocracy Engineering Migration The Maquinistas in Cuba Becoming Foreign White Masters A Deepening Sense of Otherness Dependency and Influence Catalysts and Scapegoats Conclusion