{"id":1261,"date":"2015-02-04T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wordpress\/?page_id=1261"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:23:36","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/morenofraginals.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_fullwidth_slider _builder_version=”3.0.96″ background_image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Laplante_wide.png”][et_pb_slide use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” _builder_version=”3.0.95″ background_image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/typewriter.jpg” custom_button=”off” button_on_hover=”on” background_color=”#ffffff”][\/et_pb_slide][\/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ background_color=”#f7f7f7″ inner_shadow=”on” fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals” text_orientation=”center” _builder_version=”3.0.96″]
\n[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ background_color=”#ffffff” admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ transparent_background=”off”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AHA.0011.jpg” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]Manuel R.\u00a0Moreno Fraginals has been Cuba’s most influential and outstanding historian during\u00a0the last four decades. He has made many distinguished scholarly\u00a0contributions relating to Cuban history, particularly the history of Cuban\u00a0sugar and slavery.<\/p>\n

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION<\/em><\/strong>
\nClarence H. Haring Prize – 1981<\/em>
\nHONORARY FOREIGN MEMBER – 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheSugarmill_250.jpg” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]The Sugarmill<\/span> is a complex analysis, masterfully combining various academic disciplines – economics, politics, anthropology – early labor management, social customs and general culture. The result of this intellectual amalgam is a rich and multifaceted study that traces, with master hands, the changing features of Cuban society in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

Franklin W. Knight<\/em><\/strong>
\n Professor of History<\/em>
\n Johns Hopkins University<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Manaca-Sepia.jpg” admin_label=”Manacas Blurb” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]The tower of the Manacas mill still stands, legend encrusted, in the fields near Trinidad. The niche at its top where the bell once hung is bare, but it is a mute reminder of cane-field slave labor. There it stood – lookout, fortress, and bell tower – tolling out each day the sixteen, eighteen, or twenty hours of toil.<\/p>\n

Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals<\/em><\/strong>
\n The Sugarmill<\/span><\/em>
\n Monthly Review Press – 1976<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ElToquenAzu_250.jpg” admin_label=”Token Blurb” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]From the 1850s the lack of divisional currency in Cuba was so severe that shopkeepers tried to compensate monetary difficulties by printing their own signs, coined by hand in tin or countermarked with hammer punches.<\/p>\n

Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals<\/strong><\/em>
\nEl Token Azucarero Cubano<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ingenio_Manaca.jpg” admin_label=”Oscar Almario G” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]Descendent from a family of sugar entrepreneurs – his grandfather and his father owned in the past slaves and sugar mills – literally “grew up” in the midst of that great figure of Cuban history that is sugar with insider\u00a0knowledge of their production, technology and social environments. Moreno Fraginals became a full national and global authority on the economic topic of sugar production knowledge.<\/p>\n

Oscar Almario Garcia<\/strong><\/em>
\nVice Rector
\nNational University of Colombia<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ image=”http:\/\/192.168.254.210\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Calculadora_250.jpg” admin_label=”Calculator Blurb” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center”]A\u00a0peculiarity of the sugar economy in Cuba was the early implantation of advanced technology: the steam engine, electricity employed for industrial purposes, the railroad, the telegraph and telephone, were in general use in Cuba before their adoption in Spain, “the mother country”.<\/p>\n

Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Sugarmill<\/span><\/em>
\nMonthly Review Press – 1976<\/em><\/p>\n

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