“…So he does not wonder why the 1862 manual on sugarcane cultivation, advocating intensive methods, by Alvaro Reynoso, whom he often cites, was translated into Dutch and applied in Java, but ‘forgotten’ in Cuba, as the preface to a 1925 reprint points out. There is an obvious reason: Cuba, with a total area of 110,000 km 2 , had 553,000 inhabitants in 1817 and 1,573,000 in 1899 (Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas 2008b, Table 3.1), whereas Java, with 132,000 km 2 , had 4.5 million in 1815 and almost 28.5 million by 1900 (Peper 1970).…”