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Author Hollander, Gail M.

Title Raising cane in the 'glades [electronic resource] : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida / Gail M. Hollander.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 348 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326) and index.
Contents From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sugar trade -- Florida -- Everglades.
Drainage -- Florida -- Everglades.
Rural development -- Florida -- Everglades.
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Florida -- Everglades.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226349503 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226349500 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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