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States of Nature : Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
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Stuart George McCook
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November 03 2021
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University of Texas Press
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December 31 2002
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November 03 2021
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10.7560/752566
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. ix
ILLUSTRATIONS
pp. vii
CONTENTS
pp. xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pp. 1
INTRODUCTION Science, Nature, and Development during the Export Boom, 1760 –1940
pp. 11
One COMMODITY AND COUNTRY The Rediscovery of Nature in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760 –1890
pp. 26
Two GIVING PLANTS A CIVIL STATUS Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Venezuela and Costa Rica, 1885–1935
pp. 47
Three BUILDING CREOLE SCIENCE Science and Ideologies of Agricultural Development in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1930
pp. 77
Four AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL RATIONALIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN SUGAR INDUSTRY, 1780 – 1930
pp. 105
Five PROMOTING THE “PRACTICAL” Technocratic Ideologies of Science and Progress in an Age of Fragile Prosperity, 1924 –1930
pp. 128
Six CONCLUSION The Great Depression, the Plant Sciences, and Changing Paradigms of Agricultural Development, 1928–1940
pp. 143
NOTES
pp. 165
BIBLIOGRAPHY
pp. 195
INDEX
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