Industrial Cuba
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A good fit for
- Researchers interested in Cuban economic history and Caribbean history
- Economics-history students who need original English-language documentary evidence
- Deep readers accustomed to public-domain English ebooks
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- General readers who want only a general history of Cuba or a travel guide
- Those with insufficient English reading ability who need a Chinese translation
- Readers expecting contemporary data and policy analysis
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and introduction first to clarify the author's scope and purpose, then decide which chapters to read closely.
- Keep a map of Cuba and a timeline at hand, checking place names and historical points as you read.
- Excerpt economic data and judgments and note the author's standpoint for later verification.
- Read alongside later works on Cuban economic history to avoid a single perspective.
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About the author
Robert Percival Porter (1852–1917) was an American journalist and statistician. He served as a superintendent of the census, and his career spanned both newspaper reporting and government statistics, a background that gave his writing both the care of first-hand observation and the orderliness of statistical analysis. One work by him is held in the collection, Industrial Cuba, a documentary study centred on Cuba's industrial conditions and notable for its investigative approach. Public information on his early education, specific posts and other writings is limited; what can be relied on is his identity as a journalist and statistician and the subject of this book. The available evidence suggests a practical, fact-oriented style, habitually supporting descriptions of industrial reality with statistical material—a manner representative of American economic and regional writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and one that left a useful record of Cuba's industrial landscape at the time.
