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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Boston Seminar on Environmental History Presents:
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Biological Exchange in the Pacific World in the Age of Industrial Sugarcane Plantations</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Author: Lawrence Kessler, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This paper traces how sugarcane planters directed circulations of plant and animal species in the Pacific World. This new biological exchange served
the political and economic interests of the plantation owners and their allies. Planters, however, were unable to control the biological exchange processes they created. This paper thus argues that through the creation of new patterns of biological exchange,
sugarcane plantations induced ecological changes throughout the Pacific World.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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