Sugar and Power in the Caribbean: The South Porto Rico Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, 1900-1921

Sugar and Power in the Caribbean: The South Porto Rico Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, 1900-1921 is a toughly researched book that details the history of this New Jersey company dedicated to the growing, manufacturing, and exporting of raw sugar in Puerto Rico in the 1900s,...

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Published in:Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies 2011, Vol.36 (72), p.273-274
Main Authors: Bolívar, José L, Garcia Muniz, Humberto
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Business
Caribbean studies
Colonial history
Exports
German language
Manufacturing
Muniz, Humberto Garcia
Nonfiction
Puerto Rico
REVIEWS / RECENSIONS
Sugar
Sugar industry
War
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Summary:Sugar and Power in the Caribbean: The South Porto Rico Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, 1900-1921 is a toughly researched book that details the history of this New Jersey company dedicated to the growing, manufacturing, and exporting of raw sugar in Puerto Rico in the 1900s, and in the Dominican Republic in the 1910s. Sugar and Power is the first book that describes in great detail the intricacies of one of the three most important US sugar corporations that operated in Puerto Rico at the beginning of the 20th century. The South Porto Rico Sugar Company (SPRSC) was the only sugar company in all of the Caribbean, if not the world, that operated in two countries simultaneously, that is, cultivating cane in one country (the Dominican Republic) and producing sugar in another (Guanica Central in Puerto Rico). In Sugar and Power, Garcia provides his readers with a unique vision of the US sugar industry seen through the spectrum of multiple economic sectors - industrial, financial, and agricultural. It highlights the investments of German capital both prior to and after World War I, and the lasting affects the war had on their participation. Garcia also illustrates the use of technical expertise provided by personnel imported from Louisiana and Barbados, the decisions that resulted from meetings between the company's executives and the New York based law firms that represented SPRSC, and the decisions made in Puerto Rico by the company's management.
ISSN:0826-3663
2333-1461