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- catalog abstract ""Sugar Baron is the story of Manuel Rionda (1854-1943), who immigrated from Spain to Cuba as a boy of sixteen to become a dominant operator in the international sugar trade and to stand at the crossroads of U.S.-Cuban economic relations. Through an examination of Rionda's career as founder of the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation and of New York's major sugar brokerage firm, Muriel McAvoy gives us an in-depth history of Cuba's sugar industry and its economy during the first half of the twentieth century." "McAvoy examines the dilemmas of development and the constraints of financial dependency, probing the inside story of how both Wall Street's and Cuba's political elite viewed the crucial economic problems facing the island and how they attempted to solve them. In great detail, she elucidates conflicts among the various economic sectors in both Cuba and the United States, providing unique and often corrective insights." "Stressing the significance of the Cuban elite in furthering and profiting from the development of Cuba as a sugar enclave, Sugar Baron shows that Rionda and the other hacendados did much to ensure that a single export would dominate their island's economy, enriching themselves in the process. Challenging the view that U.S. capitalism reduced Cuba's businessmen to helpless pawns it provides a clearer view of the responsibility for events between the Spanish-American War and the triumph of Castro's revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12746475.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""McAvoy examines the dilemmas of development and the constraints of financial dependency, probing the inside story of how both Wall Street's and Cuba's political elite viewed the crucial economic problems facing the island and how they attempted to solve them. In great detail, she elucidates conflicts among the various economic sectors in both Cuba and the United States, providing unique and often corrective insights."".
- catalog description ""Stressing the significance of the Cuban elite in furthering and profiting from the development of Cuba as a sugar enclave, Sugar Baron shows that Rionda and the other hacendados did much to ensure that a single export would dominate their island's economy, enriching themselves in the process. Challenging the view that U.S. capitalism reduced Cuba's businessmen to helpless pawns it provides a clearer view of the responsibility for events between the Spanish-American War and the triumph of Castro's revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Sugar Baron is the story of Manuel Rionda (1854-1943), who immigrated from Spain to Cuba as a boy of sixteen to become a dominant operator in the international sugar trade and to stand at the crossroads of U.S.-Cuban economic relations. Through an examination of Rionda's career as founder of the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation and of New York's major sugar brokerage firm, Muriel McAvoy gives us an in-depth history of Cuba's sugar industry and its economy during the first half of the twentieth century."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.".
- catalog description "Merchant at the Crossroads -- Business with Aliens -- Head of the Mouse -- Tarafa and the Genial Shark -- Cuba Cane -- A Fixed Price -- Tail of the Lion -- The Steel Gray Battleship -- Visible Hands -- Receivership and Reorganization -- Empty Saddlebags -- From the Wolf, a Pelt -- The Roads Taken.".
- catalog extent "337 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081302613X (c : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Gainesville : University Press of Florida,".
- catalog spatial "Cuba".
- catalog subject "338.7/664122/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Businessmen Cuba Biography.".
- catalog subject "HD9114.C89 R565 2003".
- catalog subject "Rionda y Polledo, Manuel.".
- catalog subject "Sugar trade Cuba History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Merchant at the Crossroads -- Business with Aliens -- Head of the Mouse -- Tarafa and the Genial Shark -- Cuba Cane -- A Fixed Price -- Tail of the Lion -- The Steel Gray Battleship -- Visible Hands -- Receivership and Reorganization -- Empty Saddlebags -- From the Wolf, a Pelt -- The Roads Taken.".
- catalog title "Sugar baron : Manuel Rionda and the fortunes of pre-Castro Cuba / Muriel McAvoy.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".