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Article: American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934.(Review)
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- June 22, 2001
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American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. By Cesar Ayala. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 321. $19.95.)
The early 1900s appear as a moment of historical convergence for the Hispanic Caribbean, when Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic came to constitute what Eric Williams once deemed "the American sugar kingdom:' Yet, Cesar Ayala's new work demonstrates that despite being similarly dominated by U.S. military forces and sugar corporations in this period, these three nations followed divergent paths conditioned by their prior histories and class structures. Ayala's study thus ...