Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
- ISBN-10
- 1469651416
- ISBN-13
- 9781469651415
- Category
- Balance of trade
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Louis A. Pérez
Description
"In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Pérez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place"--
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