Patricia Juarez-Dappe is an associate professor of Latin American history at California State University, Northridge.
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When Sugar Ruled
Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916
By Patricia Juarez-Dappe
Two tropical commodities—coffee and sugar—dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many Latin American sugar economies.During