Sugar & railroads : a Cuban history, 1837-1959 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zanetti Lecuona, Oscar, 1946-
Other Authors: GarcĂ­a Alvarez, Alejandro
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Bridget Brereton Introduction / Franklin W. Knight 1. The Problems of Transportation 2. The Guines Railroad 3. The Initial Expansion, 1838 1852 4. The Years of the Railroad Boom 5. The Island Railroad Network 6. Human Dimensions of Cuban Railroads 7. Relative Stagnation 8. The Impact of Structural Changes 9. Denationalization 10. U.S. Intervention 11. The Ferrocarril Central and Imperial Interests 12. British Monopoly in the West 13. War, Sugar, and Railroads 14. U.S. Monopolies and the Tarafa Bill 15. Organization of the Railroad Proletariat 16. The Crisis 17. Temporary Recovery 18. In the Shadow of the Bourgeois State.