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Book Review

Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. By Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García, trans. by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxx, 496 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2385-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-4692-9.)

This book presents a sweeping history of Cuban railroads and their close relationship to Cuba's sugar industry. Surveying the railroads from their origin until the Cuban revolution in 1959, Sugar and Railroads is a remarkable achievement that explores the island's economic history, the relations between two of its major industries, their ties to the government, the role of foreign capital, and the shaping influence exerted by railroad workers. . . .

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