Reunión Científica: Iberoamérica y España antes de las independencias: El impacto económico de las reformas ilustradas y de las guerras napoleónicas
International Meeting: Spain and Iberoamerica before Independence: the Impact of the Enlightened Reforms and of the Napoleonic Wars
Madrid, 10 y 11 de mayo de 2012 Madrid, May 10-11, 2012
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The Cuban experiment: plantations, estates and wars, 1760-1820 José Antonio Piqueras
In the second half of the 18th century Cuba, which had until then been a service colony characterised by its strategic military role and the supply of tobacco for the monopoly, started to promote growing commercial crops intended for export, taking the successful experiences of the British and French West Indies as a model. This paper examines the conditions and pace of sugar expansion which led the island to become the top world sugar exporter in the 1830s. The article lists the reforms brought in, the mechanisms for accumulation of capital and the wars dominating the 1761-1815 period which facilitated the above and in actual fact enabled free trade from 1796 to 1815.
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