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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-326) and index
