The ethnography and transculturation of Havana tobacco and the beginnings of sugar in America
The social phenomenon of "transculturation" and its importance
Concerning the low nicotine content of Cuban tobacco
On how tobacco was discovered in Cuba by the Europeans
Tobacco among the Indians of the Antilles
The transculturation of tobacco
On the beginnings of the sugar-producing industry in America
"Cachimbos" and "Cachimbas"
How the sugar "Ingenio" has always been the favored child of capitalism
The first transatlantic shipments of sugar
How Havana tobacco embarked upon its conquest of the world.