Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959 [Audiobook] download free by Mary Todd
- Listen audiobook: Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959
- Author: Mary Todd
- Release date: 1998/11/2
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780807846926
- Rating: 9.76 of 10
- Votes: 182
- Review by: Leia Kay
- Review rating: 9.77 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/18
- Duration: 6H41M40S in 256 kbps (105.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPC, WMA, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3 (compression RAR, ZIP, XZ, TGZ, TBZ2, TAR.Z)
- Total pages original book: 528
- Includes a PDF summary of 56 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 40M9S (11.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through the 1959 Revolution. More broadly, the book uses the development of the Cuban rail transport system to provide a fascinating perspective on Cuban history, particularly the story of its predominant agro-industry, sugar. While railroads facilitated the sugar industry's rapid growth after 1837, the authors argue, sugar interests determined where railroads would be built and who would benefit from them. Zanetti and Garcia explore the implications of this symbiotic relationship for the technological development of the railroads, the economic evolution of Cuba, and the lives of the railroad workers. As this work shows, the economic benefits that accompanied the rise of railroads in Europe and the United States were not repeated in Cuba. Sugar and Railroads provides a poignant demonstration of the fact that technological progress alone is far from sufficient for development. |Traces the history of railroads in Cuba through the 1959 revolution, showing how the sugar industry controlled the location of railroads and determined who would benefit from them.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, History Of The Americas, Trains & Railways, Economic History, Railway Transport Industries, Transport Industries
- Download servers: 4Shared, Dropbox, ZeoSpace, Microsoft OneDrive, FreakShare, Woelkli. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, XZ, TGZ, TBZ2, TAR.Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 95.23 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x33.02mm
- Weight: 771.11g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Chapel Hill, United States
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