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Hardcover Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba Book

ISBN: 1469651416

ISBN13: 9781469651415

Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba

How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez 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. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports--a signal feature of the Cuban economy--was...

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