[PDF] Plantation Economy eBook

Author : César J. Ayala
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807867977

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Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.

Author : Lloyd Best
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This important book provides a fascinating insight into the conceptual under-pinnings of the theory of plantation economy initiated by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt in the 1960s as a basis for analysing the nature of the Caribbean economy. While acknowledging an intellectual debt to Latin American structuralists and also to the work of Dudley Seers and William Demas, the authors develop an original and innovative analytical framework as a counter to more "universalist" models which failed to take account of the Caribbean reality. Their work identifies the main features of the plantation economy as a hinterland characterized by subordination and dependency on the dominant metropole. Distinguishing between hinterlands of conquest, settlement and exploitation, Best and Levitt analyse the rules that determine this complex relationship with the metropole. Their economic theories are presented against a background of the historical factors that gave rise to the "structural continuity" of Caribbean economies and which now impede meaningful structural transformation. Book jacket.

Author : George L. Beckford
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789766400743

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This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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What is Plantation Economy An economy that is focused on agricultural mass production, typically of a small number of commodity crops, is known as a plantation economy. This type of economy is founded on enormous farms that are cultivated by laborers or slaves. Plantations are the names given to these properties. As a means of generating revenue, plantation economies are typically dependent on the export of cash crops. Cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the family Indigofera, which are used to manufacture indigo dye, were among the most important crops. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Plantation economy Chapter 2: History of Antigua and Barbuda Chapter 3: Plantation Chapter 4: Slavery in the colonial history of the United States Chapter 5: Triangular trade Chapter 6: Sugar plantations in the Caribbean Chapter 7: History of the Southern United States Chapter 8: Natchez District Chapter 9: Slavery in the British and French Caribbean Chapter 10: Slavery in colonial Spanish America Chapter 11: Antebellum South Chapter 12: Tobacco colonies Chapter 13: Engenho Chapter 14: History of commercial tobacco in the United States Chapter 15: Colonial South and the Chesapeake Chapter 16: Proto-globalization Chapter 17: Tobacco in the American colonies Chapter 18: Slave plantation Chapter 19: Plantation complexes in the Southern United States Chapter 20: Afro-Barbadians Chapter 21: Planter class (II) Answering the public top questions about plantation economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of plantation economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of plantation economy.

Author : Richard Follett
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2016-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421419394

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Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.

Author : Jane G. Landers
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813017723

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This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. The essays trace the relationship of Florida to the Caribbean and Atlantic economies.

Author : Richard Follett
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421419416

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How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees. In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later—after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets—America’s plantations lay in ruins. Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery’s work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty and forced labor haunted the region well into the twentieth century. The book explores the importance of slavery to the Old South, the astounding profitability of plantation agriculture, and the legacy of emancipation. It also examines the place of American producers in world markets and considers the impact of globalization and international competition 150 years ago. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.