TY - BOOK ID - 14265700 TI - Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida PY - 2008 SN - 0226349500 9786612426605 1282426605 0226349489 9780226349480 9780226349503 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Drainage - Florida - Everglades. KW - Drainage -- Florida -- Everglades. KW - Rural development - Florida - Everglades. KW - Rural development -- Florida -- Everglades. KW - Sugar - Manufacture and refining - Florida - Everglades. KW - Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Florida -- Everglades. KW - Sugar trade - Florida - Everglades. KW - Sugar trade -- Florida -- Everglades. KW - Sugar trade KW - Drainage KW - Rural development KW - Sugar KW - Industries KW - Business & Economics KW - Manufacture and refining KW - Cane sugar KW - Community development, Rural KW - Development, Rural KW - Integrated rural development KW - Regional development KW - Rehabilitation, Rural KW - Rural community development KW - Rural economic development KW - Land drainage KW - Sugar bounties KW - Sugar industry KW - Citizen participation KW - Social aspects KW - Sugarcane products KW - Sugars KW - Agriculture and state KW - Community development KW - Economic development KW - Regional planning KW - Agricultural engineering KW - Hydraulic engineering KW - Reclamation of land KW - Sanitary engineering KW - Sewerage KW - Sweetener industry KW - E-books KW - commodities trading, botany, geography, united states, florida, the everglades, ecological transition, ecology, environment, impenetrable swamp, endangered wetland, emvironmentalism, sugar industry, 1990s, political storm, restoration, environmental transformation, historical, geographical, global production, interviews, government documents, us state department, politicians, era of globalization, cuba, international debates, regional competition, rural development, engineered landscapes. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14265700 AB - Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990's was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological "restoration" of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the 'Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida's sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba-which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional "other" to Florida's "self." Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the "sugar question"-a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade-emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation. ER -