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Author Hollander, Gail M.

Title Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida / Gail M. Hollander
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades
Summary At the heart of the transformation of the Everglades from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland, is the sugar industry. This study situates the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-326) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Händel, Georg Friedrich. swd
Subject Sugar trade -- Florida -- Everglades
Drainage -- Florida -- Everglades
Rural development -- Florida -- Everglades
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Florida -- Everglades
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Drainage
Rural development
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining
Sugar trade
Industrie
Ländliche Entwicklung
Zucker
Florida -- Everglades
Everglades
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007035931
ISBN 9780226349480
0226349489