Article ID: CBB319162656

Sugar Mills, Technology, and Environmental Change: A Case Study of Colonial Agro-Industrial Development in the Caribbean (2006)

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Sugar plantation development and environmental change in the Caribbean are examined together through case studies of sugar estates and settlement distribution on a former British colony. The downscaling of production and general abandonment of the island after the mid-19th century left intact an agro-industrial landscape. Relic industrial features provide insights to pivotal economic episodes since the first founding of the colony in the 17th century. Technology, factory architecture, and artifacts were used to assess change over time and for hypothesizing phases of development congruent with socioeconomic history in the region. [2009 Vogel Prize winner]

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Authors & Contributors
Joanne Ryan
Osgood, Robert V.
Thurston H. G. Hahn
Pearson, Lynn F.
Gabriele Cruciani
Thomas E. Leary
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Buildings, Industrial
Sugar and sugar industry
Plantations
Factories
Industrial heritage
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Canada
Central Aguirre (P.R.)
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Institutions
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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