From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History Since 1492 (Envisioning Cuba)

by Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $49.34

  Presents the environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus. This book emphasizes the two processes that have had a dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. It demonstrates how the sugar industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.