From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492

by Reinaldo Funes Monzote and Alex Martin

Book Overview

In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858587
• ISBN13: 9780807858585
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"