Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-341) and index
The omnipresent forest and the beginnings of the sugar industry -- Shipbuilding and the sugar industry, 1772-1791 -- The struggle over private ownership of forests, 1792-1815 -- Sugar and the absolute freedom to clear forests, 1815-1876 -- Centralization of the sugar industry and the forests, 1876-1898 -- North American capital and sugar’s final assault on the forest, 1898-1926 -- From forests to sugar : an insignificant change?
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