Bøger af Reinaldo Funes Monzote

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organisation of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production.

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.