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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457997803321

Autore

Juarez-Dappe Patricia Isabel <1965->

Titolo

When sugar ruled [[electronic resource] ] : economy and society in northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876-1916 / / Patricia Juarez-Dappe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-89680-463-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; ; no. 49

Disciplina

338.1/736109824309034

Soggetti

Sugar trade - Argentina - Tucumán - History - 19th century

Sugar trade - Argentina - Tucumán - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Tucumán (Argentina) Economic conditions 19th century

Tucumán (Argentina) Economic conditions 20th century

Tucumán (Argentina) Social conditions

Tucumán (Argentina) Politics and government

Argentina Politics and government 1860-1910

Argentina Politics and government 1910-1943

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : setting the stage -- Foundations for growth -- The sugar industry and Tucumán's economy -- Sugarcane planters : patterns of production -- Sugar labor: field and factory workers -- Sugar and the province -- Conclusion : the world that sugar created.

Sommario/riassunto

Two tropical commodities-coffee and sugar-dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876-1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many Latin American sugar economies.  During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the province of Tucumán emerged as Argentina's main sugar producer, its industry catering almost exclusively to the needs of the national market and financed mostly by domestic capital. The expansion of