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"Caribbean Rum presents the fascinating cultural, economic, and ethnographic history of rum in the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present." "Drawing on data from historical archaeology and the economic history of the Caribbean, Frederick Smith explains why this industry arose in the islands, how attitudes toward alcohol consumption have affected the people of the region, and how rum production evolved over 400 years from a small colonial activity to a multi-billion-dollar industry controlled by multinational corporations. He investigates the economic impact of Caribbean rum on many scales, including rum's contribution to sugarcane plantation revenues, its role in bolstering colonial and postcolonial economies, and its effect on Atlantic trade. Smith discusses the political and economic trends that determined the value of rum, especially war, competition from other alcohol industries, slavery and emancipation, temperance movements, and globalization."--Jacket.
Introduction -- At the Margins of the Atlantic World: Caribbean Rum in the Seventeenth Century -- Rum's Threat to Competing Alcohol Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- Ancestors and Alcohol in Africa and the Caribbean -- Alcoholic Marronage: Identity, Danger, and Escape in Caribbean Slave Societies -- Taming Rum in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Rum and Economic Survival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-324) and index.
Smith, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1966-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2005