Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION Science, Nature, and Development during the Export Boom, 1760 –1940 1
6. One COMMODITY AND COUNTRY The Rediscovery of Nature in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760 –1890 11
7. Two GIVING PLANTS A CIVIL STATUS Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Venezuela and Costa Rica, 1885–1935 26
8. Three BUILDING CREOLE SCIENCE Science and Ideologies of Agricultural Development in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1930 47
9. Four AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL RATIONALIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN SUGAR INDUSTRY, 1780 – 1930 77
10. Five PROMOTING THE “PRACTICAL” Technocratic Ideologies of Science and Progress in an Age of Fragile Prosperity, 1924 –1930 105
11. Six CONCLUSION The Great Depression, the Plant Sciences, and Changing Paradigms of Agricultural Development, 1928–1940 128
12. NOTES 143
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 165
14. INDEX 195