Reinaldo Funes Monzote is associate professor of history at the University of Havana.||Alex Martin is an independent translator living in Maryland

"Writing with erudition, but also with an attention to narrative, Funes Monzote demonstrates how, in a colonial context, the search for profits from sugar brought about an irreparable transformation in the ecology of a large, wooded tropical island. - Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan"

Reinaldo Funes Monzote is associate professor of history at the University of Havana.||Alex Martin is an independent translator living in Maryland

"Writing with erudition, but also with an attention to narrative, Funes Monzote demonstrates how, in a colonial context, the search for profits from sugar brought about an irreparable transformation in the ecology of a large, wooded tropical island. - Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan"

Reinaldo Funes Monzote is associate professor of history at the University of Havana.||Alex Martin is an independent translator living in Maryland

"Writing with erudition, but also with an attention to narrative, Funes Monzote demonstrates how, in a colonial context, the search for profits from sugar brought about an irreparable transformation in the ecology of a large, wooded tropical island. - Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan"