Rice in the Time of Sugar

In this history of Cuba, Louis Perez 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. Perez 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 aceasta istorie a Cubei, Louis Perez propune un nou contrapunct cubanez: orezul, un produs de baza in bucataria insulei, si zaharul, care a dominat o economie de export de 150 de ani. Perez arata cum logica comertului cu zahar a dus la dezvoltarea unei agriculturi pentru consumatorii din strainatate in detrimentul consumatorilor de acasa.