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Description

1. xiv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

1. "In 1844, a number of migrant engineers were arrested in Cuba accused of sedition. Such engineering migrants contributed to Cuba becoming the world's foremost sugar producer, and this book explores the previously untold role they played, and seeks an understanding of the interaction between the transnational networks and local social dynamics within which Cuba was developing. As Cuba became prey to economic dependency, the migrant engineers became privileged scapegoats, their identity defined by their otherness. Based upon archival research, combining a macro- with a micro-historical approach, this book should be of interest not only to scholars of Cuban history, but also those whose concerns may include the engagement of migrants with a host society, historical processes of globalization related to commodities such as sugar, and the social dynamics for technological development"--
2. "Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Along with steam-powered machinery came migrant engineers, indispensable aliens who were well rewarded for their efforts. But they remained perennial outsiders, symbolic of Cuba's growing economic dependency, privileged scapegoats unconsciously caught up in the island's political insecurities. This book tells the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cuba's development and whose experience helps illuminate both the advance of the Cuban sugar industry and the processes by which the island was bound into global commodity-driven networks of control, dependency, and resistance"--

Subject

1. Sugar trade > Cuba > History
2. Engineers > Cuba > History
3. Immigrants > Cuba > History
4. Engineers
5. Immigrants
6. Sugar trade
7. Zuckerproduktion
8. Zuckerindustrie
9. Einwanderung
10. Ingenieur
11. Industrialisierung
12. Wirtschaftssoziologie
13. Cuba
14. Kuba

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Steam and sugarocracy -- Engineering migration -- The Maquinistas in Cuba -- Becoming foreign white masters -- A deepening sense of otherness -- Dependency and influence -- Catalysts and scapegoats -- Conclusion: Cuban sugar, engineering migrants, and transnational networks.

Call number

1. JFD 15-406

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-247) and index.

Author

1. Curry-Machado, Jonathan.

Title

1. Cuban sugar industry : transnational networks and engineering migrants in mid-nineteenth century Cuba / Jonathan Curry-Machado.

Imprint

1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-247) and index.

LCCN

1. 2010043766

ISBN

1. 9780230111394 (hardback)
2. 0230111394 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFD 15-406