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 Brazil - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The introduction of sugar cane from Madeira and São Tomé gave rise to a plantation economy in the coastal zone, based on slavery.
Cotton was also grown on the plantations, but Brazil's exports of cotton and sugar were hit by competition from the West Indies and North America.
In December 1998, however, Brazil abandoned the defence of its currency, causing its central bank governor to resign, in breach of the terms of the $41.5 billion/£26 billion international bailout agreed with the International Monetary Fund.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Brazil   (3404 words)

  
 Motelswithall Hawaii Lodging Guide - Motels by City in Hawaii
In 1893 the Hawaiian monarch was deposed and Hawaii became successively a republic in 1894, a U.S. possession in 1898, and a U.S. territory in 1900.
During the last half of the l9th century, Hawaii developed a plantation economy based on the cultivation of sugar and, later, pineapples, for export.
The name of the state is taken from that of the island of Hawaii and is a Polynesian word of uncertain meaning.
www.motelswithall.com /hawaii   (801 words)

  
 Louisiana Timeline: Year 1801
But his plan was to again enslave the fls and fully restore the plantation economy that had made Saint Domingue so prosperous before the wars started.
A few years later he will buy the Antoine Bienvenu plantation on the river and the Clark house on Royal where Captain Davis was a guardian to Myra Clark before taking her back east with him.
Bocage Plantation is built in Ascension Parish by Marius Pons Bringier as wedding gift for his daughter Fanny (FranÁoise), who married Christophe Colomb, a French refugee.
www.enlou.com /time/year1801.htm   (1253 words)

  
 Bibliography / Book List: Guyana - Culture, History, Economics, Development, Politics, Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Mandle, Jay R. The Plantation Economy: Population and Economic Change in Guyana, 1838-1960.
_____ “Indo-Guyanese Migration: From Plantation to Metropolis!” Immigrants and Minorities.
Thomas, Clive Y. Plantations, Peasants, and State: A Study of the Mode of Sugar Production in Guyana.
www.ibike.org /bibliography/guyana-books.htm   (1495 words)

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