Abstract
Acknowledgments Introduction: Science, Nature, and Development during the Export Boom, 1760-1940 1. Commodity and Country: The Rediscovery of Nature in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1890 2. Giving Plants a Civil Status: Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Venezuela and Costa Rica, 1885-1935 3. Building Creole Science: Science and Ideologies of Agricultural Development in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1930 4. Agricultural Science and the Ecological Rationalization of the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1780-1930 5. Promoting the Practical: Technocratic Ideologies of Science and Progress in an Age of Fragile Prosperity, 1924-1930 6. Conclusion: The Great Depression, the Plant Sciences, and Changing Paradigms of Agricultural Development, 1928-1940 Notes Bibliography Index
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