Sugarcane (World Agriculture)

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From enhancing the flavour of food to providing a substrate for fermentation, sugar is renowned worldwide for its importance as a commodity. For many centuries sugarcane has been cultivated and developed, and we now have a huge range of crop varieties.Based on Blackburn 's highly successful Sugarcane, originally published in 1984, this new edition has been fully revised and expanded by an international team of widely respected sugarcane specialists. Focussing on the agricultural aspects of the crop, this book follows a logical progression from the botany and breeding through to planning cultivation, control of weeds, pests and diseases, harvest management and payment for cane.An invaluable asset to those involved in planning or running sugar estates as well as small producersAn easy-to-follow reference for students and agriculturalists alikeComprehensive reference sections and further reading

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Sugar Cane Cultivation and Management
H. Bakker
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0306461196

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This book covers the sugar cane plant, crop production and services, the latter comprising engineering, research and administration. It aims at providing the reader with information regarding the cost-effective production of a good crop of sugar cane. The significance of the book is the provision of practical information for the farmer engaged in the production of the crop. The cultivation and management of sugar cane is discussed, with emphasis given to cultivation and management practices. Supporting services of agricultural engineering and research are given special attention.

The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane

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The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane
John Gilmore
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ASIN: 0485121484

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First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the twentieth-century to achieve a place in the Western "canon." Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a "West India Georgic," challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the eighteenth-century British empire. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work.

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Soap opera quality
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The Man Pilot
James W Ridout IV , and James Ridout
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ASIN: 1560234601

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The Man Pilot is a rich, colorful saga of plantation life in the steamy Louisiana delta where love, sex, lies, and deceit live among the slender stalks of sugar cane deep in the Bayou land. The latest installment of author James W. Ridout IV's "Plantation" series chronicles the Pilot family, an extended clan of blood kin, in-laws, neighbors, friends, and lovers, gay and straight, each with a story to tell—and a secret to hide. Cover-ups, deceptions, and duplicity lead to treachery, blackmail, scandal, and murder as business trickery collides with bedroom intrigue to alter the lives—and loves—of everyone.

"You and the others may consider my ideas immoral, but all you have to do is look at yourselves and I don't come out so bad."

John Pilot, the aging patriarch of one of the grand families of Louisiana, reigns over one of the largest sugar cane producers in the state. But the farm—and the family that feeds off it—is falling apart. Sugarcane prices have hit rock bottom and it's been five years since the Pilot plantation turned a profit. A mysterious disease is killing the sugar cane the farm does manage to produce. Francis Lorraine, his scheming young wife, hops from one politician's bed to the next. Oliver, his secret lover of 40 years, has been stricken with a terminal illness. His favorite son-in-law Julian, a "reformed" gay man, is on the verge of a breakdown. And it's all he can do to keep his openly gay nephew Shaun, his heir apparent, from taking a shotgun to his own father.

"This family is filled with controversy and I will not be used as a scapegoat for causing problems."

Bernard had lost interest in the whole matter. Julian's latest blood type no longer ruled out the possibility that Bernard wasn't Julian's father. Julian's father could be the rapist or Bernard. This was enough for Bernard. He had the heir of the first born of his first marriage—his only marriage. He could care less about the details. As soon as Julian would be told these facts, everything would be back to normal. As far as he was concerned, the father whom Julian idolized growing up was indeed by his blood. Why question the inconsistencies? Everything in life could be challenged. Why sweat it?

The Man Pilot is a sprawling saga of southern culture, presenting a unique twist on the romantic myths about plantation life. Part mystery, part morality play, the book's complex storylines will keep you guessing at every turn.

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better gay fiction out there.......2006-10-18

John Pilot is the patriarch of a large extended family. His second wife, Frances Lorraine, is a trollop who wants half the family fortune if John divorces her. His nephew Shaun is commuting between Boston and Louisiana, going to cllege, and learning to run the plantation as well as his own business. John's children are in school in Europe, or married and living close by. (I think . . . I found it very difficult to keep track of all the relationships and connections, especially those of peripheral characters.) Dennis, John's former lover, is trying to help him get rid of Frances Lorraine without losing the plantation Uncle Julian is one of the main characters, but (again) I'm not sure exactly how he is connected to John - a cousin, or an uncle, or what.

All of the main male characters in this book are gay. The ones who aren't, for the most part, are either stupid red-neck hillbilly types or so unimportant to the plot that they might as well be ciphers. With one or two exceptions, the women are scheming, devious, unpleasant harridans. This might have something to do with the fact that most of them are married to gay men, for whatever reason, and seem to serve little purpose in their husband's lives other than as window dressing and/or mothers to a surprising number of children.

One of the plot devices that, for me, seemed very incongruous was the conviction held by John/Julian/et al that the neighbors wouldn't stand for an inter-racial marriage; that if everyone know that John and Julian and Dennis and Shaun and Jeffrey and Adam and Simon were gay, the locals would turn against them all; and that nobody KNEW that all these guys were gay. We are talking a small Louisiana farming community -- hell, everybody knew and just didn't discuss it with the principals.

I found The Man Pilot to be slow going. Ridout has a tendency to tell the reader what is going on rather than showing what is happening. His language can be melodramatic: "He waited patiently for the damsel to emerge.", ". . . so she was going to be relieved of her plight." And stilted: "It is a thick sirloin that I pounded relentlessly to make it tender. Then I left it to marinate for two days. It should be tender enough to cut easily with a fork. I will be disappointed if that's not the case. The sauce I reduced three times under a normal fire. It should be rich and flavorful." Unlike the prose.

The plot is convoluted, which in the right hands can be a good thing. In The Man Pilot, it tends more towards the extremely unlikely. Apparently, in a previous book, the governor's wife killed Robert, a man Julian (I think it was Julian, or maybe John) had just discovered he loved. She tried to have Julian (or John?) convicted of the crime, but the Pilot family ferreted out the truth, covered up the murder as an accident, and sent this woman off to Europe. Now . . . someone is blackmailing Julian's mother about this, about the fact that Julian is probably the product of a serial rapist's rape of said mother (which will undoubtedly muck up the large inheritance), and about her financial dealings. Shaun is having problems with his lover Carmen, who doesn't want to commute to Louisiana from Boston, and problems because he feels shut out of a relationship John has with with Adam, the local pastor. Plus Shaun's father, who abused and abandoned him as a child, (which is why he was adopted by Julian or John) now wants a reconciliation. Dennis is torn between Simon the studly farmer and Jeffrey the insecure, still closeted pediatrician. The sugar-cane business is tanking and Frances Lorraine isn't helping anything by her promiscuous behavior, usually with government officials. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but you get the idea.

There are some graphic homosexual sex scenes in The Man Pilot, probably no more graphic than those found in the steamier heterosexual bodice rippers now available. They aren't bad, as sex scenes go; they don't seem forced into the narrative because "we need a sex scene or two and this seems about the right number of pages into the book".

I think Ridout has some skill as a writer. If he's looking to be the Danielle Steele of the gay community, he's in the right ballpark. I also think this book could have used some serious editing and rewriting. There is better gay fiction out there than this.

Soap opera quality.......2005-08-16

I read this book while on vacation, and this book is fine as a way to while away a few hours while traveling. It's billed as being "laden with secrets, scandals, deception, and betrayal," in other words as a soap opera, and if you approach it as you might approach As The World Turns, in other words willing to suspend disbelief and not being too demanding in terms of craft, The Man Pilot provides some entertainment and escape from reality. However, with dialogue that's a bit stilted and writing that does a bit too much telling instead of showing it's definitely a soap opera and not an Academy Award winning drama. That said, just as it's easy to get hooked on a TV soap opera, so could it be easy to get hooked on this series.

CAN"T WAIT FOR #3.......2004-08-21

I was so happy to finally read the second book from James Ridout. I feel like I know the family after reading his first book "Plantation Secrets" that when I read this book It was like visiting and catching up with old friends. Thanks - I hope there will be another to follow!!

Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Luis A. Figueroa
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 080785610X
Release Date: 2005-12-09

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The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico.

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Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the city’s children were among those most affected. Michael Tisserand, former editor of the alternative cultural newspaper Gambit Weekly, evacuated with his family to New Iberia, Louisiana. Then, rather than waiting to find out when—or if—schools in New Orleans would reopen, Tisserand and other parents persuaded one of his children’s teachers, Paul Reynaud, to start a school among the sugarcane fields.

So was born the Sugarcane Academy—as the children themselves named it—and so also began an experience none of Reynaud’s pupils will ever forget. This inspiring book shows how a dedicated teacher made the best out of the worst situation, and how the children of New Orleans, of all backgrounds and races, adjusted to Katrina’s consequences.

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inspirational story .......2007-09-04

Great teachers can contribute so much to society and yet literature too rarely captures and celebrates this form of greatness. Katrina was a terrible storm with terrible consequences, which will be with us for decades, and yet here emerges a story that gives hope and inspiration. Without this tragedy and this book about one facet of the complicated story, we would not have seen into the world of these children and thier wonderful teacher, Paul Reynaud. We would not have had this privilege to see this example of greatness in education--without Paul, these children would not have had as vivid, life-improving, memories and lessons. "Celebrate that which you want to see more of" is a favorite adage which the author does an excellent job of fulfilling. Michael Tisserand shows, from the inside, dozens of enjoyable vignettes with subtle and not so subtle consequences. As so many schools are failing our children, here is an example of success which i believe you will enjoy.

Takes us back to Hurrican Katrina--and those left in its wake........2007-08-23

Most of us, American or otherwise, can never forget the shock and growing horror at the scenes of total devastation when the levees burst in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina had initially seemed to have left the city relatively unscathed. The atmosphere of chaos, lawlessness and anarchy that so quickly enveloped the ruined city was widely reported on. But most of us have no idea what it was like on an individual level, for those thousands of ordinary families and households whose lives were changed forever by this event.

Sugarcane Academy goes some way towards addressing this lack. In a simple, undramatic manner, Michael Tisserand tells the story of how he, his family, their circle of friends and their families, coped during and particularly after the storm.

The people involved in this account are a group of average middle-class families who were not even living in the worst-hit parts of New Orleans. However, the physical and psychological effects of the hurricane and its aftermath on them and on their children are very poignantly detailed in this book. The families, along with the unorthodox and talented teacher Paul Reynaud, establish a temporary `school in exile' for their children that helps to carry them all through the trauma of the first few months after Katrina. The school, nicknamed `Sugarcane Academy' because of the sugarcane fields near its first location in New Iberia, becomes a cathartic experience for all concerned, and through its activities and field trips, the children are enabled to work through the loss and upset that has turned their lives upside down.

This book tells a compelling story, and in its focus on children, gives an unusual insight into the effect of tragedies like Katrina on children, and their means of dealing with such events. In style, the story can ramble here and there, and can also be rather confusing due to the sheer number of names and characters that are mentioned. However, it is a fascinating tale, and one that would be of particular interest to social workers and educators.

Armchair Interview says: An interesting and valuable read.

Surprising and wonderful..........2007-07-11

Idly thumbing through the stacks at my local indy the other day, I stumbled across this little gem. Initially the New Orleans and Katrina related subject matter drew me in. As much as has been said, there is still so much more that hasn't. An almost endless litany of stories both sorrowful and uplifting spill continuously from the flood waters all over this country.

Oddly, I wasn't sure if the theme of education, and the power it bestows to rise above, would indeed hold my attention. It's a reality, sure, but is it engaging?

Uh huh.

This story is *both* sorrowful *and* uplifting. It's spare. It's real. It tells an intimate, nuanced, and unfamiliar story of a very familiar tragedy. Maybe you didn't live in the Ninth Ward or St. Bernard Parish, but what if it was still your city? Maybe you got out, your house damaged, but not destroyed. Maybe there was somewhere to go. Someone with whom to stay.

Living in New Orleans, that could've been my situation, or that of those I care for. Not utter ruin. Not the heartrending images you saw on television every night, but devastation nonetheless. Lost jobs, lost lives, lost children. How do you help them find center, when you've lost your own? How do you explain the pulse of suffering on TV, the radio, papers when it all represents the people and places you loved?

This isn't just a story about a school. It's a story about selfless care, survival, and a community's ability to rise above with aide of, and nurture for the resiliency of youth.

An excellent read.......2007-06-20

I am from New Orleans and a friend handed me this book. "Thought you might like it." I read it all night long in one sitting. It's a sad, scary, exhilarating, thoughtful, dramatic, uplifting book. I am sure I can come up with more adjectives if pressed. The story is a first-person account of evacuating Hurricane Katrina; realizing home is gone and the magnificent educator who kept a community united. Any parent, teacher and/or New Orleanian should read this splendid tale.

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Sugar Town

Sugar Town
Yasushi Kurisu
Manufacturer: Watermark Publishing
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ASIN: 0970578717

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The heartwarming autobiography of Yasushi "Scotch" Kurisu tells the story of the historic sugar cane communities along the Hilo Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii--from the boom years of the early 20th Century through the industry's postwar decline and virtual disappearance in the 1980s. More than 70 archival photographs illustrate these poignant, often humorous, anecdotes and warm vignettes of laborers from around the world--immigrants who worked the canefields and sugar mills and came of age in the plantation camps of the Hilo Coast. Sugar Town is a story told straight from the heart, a story that helps the preserve the spirit of a bygone era.

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Sugar Town.......2001-01-30

This is a great book. It was brought to my attention by the grandmother of one of my fourth grade students. She told me "Take it home over the weekend and relax". How right she was. Reading this book will give you a realistic idea of the life style of Hawaii's sugar plantation camps, particularly on the Hamakua Coast of the island of Hawaii. The author, Yasushi "Scotch" Kurisuwas born, grew up and worked in Hakalau, one of the plantation communities on the Hamakua Coast. He possesses great insight and shares this with many anecdotal accounts of life at this time and place. It is well written and easy reading. I had a difficult time putting it down. I needed to return the book to the owner, so now I am purchasing my own copy. It is one of those books that you can read over many times, and still enjoy and learn from it. If you have an interest in the times of the sugar plantation camps in Hawaii, you should add this to your reading collection.

Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)

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Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
Frederick Errington , and Deborah Gewertz
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The Futurist

ASIN: 0226217469

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Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there.

To understand the creation of such a startling place, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz explore the perspectives of the diverse participants that had a hand in its creation. In examining these views, they also consider those of Yali, a local Papua New Guinean political leader. Significantly, Yali features not only in the story of RSL, but also in Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning world history Guns, Germs, and Steel—a history probed through its contrast with RSL's. The authors' disagreement with Diamond stems, not from the generality of his focus and the specificity of theirs, but from a difference in view about how history is made—and from an insistence that those with power be held accountable for affecting history.

Cuba's Sugar Industry (Contemporary Cuba)

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Cuba's Sugar Industry (Contemporary Cuba)
Jose Alvarez , Lazaro Pena Castellanos , José Alvarez , and Lázaro Peña Castellanos
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Following forty years of tension between Cuba and the United States, this study of Cuba's agroindustry presents the results of a remarkable collaboration between researchers living in the two countries. The authors consider the prospects for the sugar industry--offering scenarios of a smaller, more efficient role in the economy--and examine reforms of the early 1990s.

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