From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492
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从古巴雨林到甘蔗地：1492 年以来的环境史
DOI：
10.5149/9780807888865_funes_monzote
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发表时间：
2008
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Alex R. Martin
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作者：
Reinaldo Funes Monzote;Alex R. Martin
这就是古巴森林的故事。在这部自哥伦布时代以来古巴获奖的环境历史书中，雷纳尔多·富内斯·蒙佐特强调了对古巴景观产生最戏剧性影响的两个过程：森林砍伐和糖料种植。在西班牙殖民的头300年里，糖料种植园主要出现在皇家海军清理森林的地区，皇家海军对造船业的管理和保护保持着兴趣。然而，甘蔗种植者在1815年取得了决定性的胜利，当时他们被允许不受限制地开垦大片森林，用于甘蔗田和蔗糖生产。这本书是第一本通过环境历史的镜头来思考古巴至关重要的制糖业的书。Funes Monzote展示了定义古巴的工业-古巴迫切依赖的工业-也破坏了岛上的生态。这本书的西班牙语原版于2004年在墨西哥出版，获得了联合国教科文组织加勒比思想环境类图书奖。对于这第一个英文版本，作者从头到尾都对文本进行了修改，并提供了新的材料，包括一个词汇表和一个总结了到目前为止的重要发展的结论。
This is the story of Cuba's forests.In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba urgently depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.