American Sugar Kingdom
American Sugar Kingdom

Author: César J. Ayala

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-11-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 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.

Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy
Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy

Author: Lloyd Best

Publisher: University of the West Indies Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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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.

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida

Author: Jane G. Landers

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 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.

Persistent Poverty
Persistent Poverty

Author: George L. Beckford

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 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.

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina
Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

Author: S. Max Edelson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0674060229

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This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess an abundant wilderness. Over the course of a century, they settled highly adaptive rice and indigo plantations across a vast coastal plain. Forcing slaves to turn swampy wastelands into productive fields and to channel surging waters into elaborate irrigation systems, planters initiated a stunning economic transformation. The result, Edelson reveals, was two interdependent plantation worlds. A rough rice frontier became a place of unremitting field labor. With the profits, planters made Charleston and its hinterland into a refined, diversified place to live. From urban townhouses and rural retreats, they ran multiple-plantation enterprises, looking to England for affirmation as agriculturists, gentlemen, and stakeholders in Britain's American empire. Offering a new vision of the Old South that was far from static, Edelson reveals the plantations of early South Carolina to have been dynamic instruments behind an expansive process of colonization. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world.

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Author: Trevor Burnard

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-02-22

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 022663924X

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"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--

Plantation Economy
Plantation Economy

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2024-01-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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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.

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Author: Dale W. Tomich

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1469663139

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Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes—from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraiba Valley—demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy. Artists and mapmakers documented in surprising detail how the physical organization of the landscape itself made possible the increased exploitation of enslaved labor. Reading these images today, one sees how technologies combined with evolving conceptions of plantation management that reduced enslaved workers to black bodies. Planter control of enslaved people's lives and labor maximized the production of each crop in a calculated system of production. Nature, too, was affected: the massive increase in the scale of production and new systems of cultivation increased the land's output. Responding to world economic conditions, the replication of slave-based commodity production became integral to the creation of mass markets for cotton, sugar, and coffee, which remain at the center of contemporary life.

How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica
How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica

Author: Donovan Stanberry

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 3030893596

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Located within the plantation economy model of the “New World Group” of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union’s sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica. It details how the end of centuries of preferential treatment of Jamaican sugar in the British/European market in 2005 worsened the social and environmental realities of the Monymusk community in Clarendon, Jamaica, which depended on the sugar industry. In describing the response of the Jamaican Government to the changes in the EU Sugar Regime, and the subsequent roll-out of an EU funded adaptation strategy, the author provides some unique perspectives on this process, drawing on his experience as a senior civil servant involved in the process. The book also highlights the continued social and environmental impact on the area since 2015 . The book concludes with a discussion on the empirical findings and how those findings contribute to the debates on the dependency perpetuated by the Plantation Economy Model of development and the failure of neo-liberal influenced government policies, as well as the lack of imagination of post-independent governments to break this dependency and deliver on the promise of independence.