Curry-Machado Cuban Sugar Industry

Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11888-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curry-Machado, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.