| Introduction to the Duke University Press Edition | |
| Introduction | |
| By Way of Prologue | |
| I | Cuban Counterpoint | 3 |
| II | The Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings of Sugar in America | |
| 1 | On Cuban Counterpoint | 97 |
| 2 | The Social Phenomenon of "Transculturation" and Its Importance | 97 |
| 3 | Concerning Tobacco Seed | 103 |
| 4 | Concerning the Low Nicotine Content of Cuban Tobacco | 104 |
| 5 | On How Tobacco was Discovered in Cuba by the Europeans | 104 |
| 6 | Tobacco Among the Indians of the Antilles | 111 |
| 7 | The Transculturation of Tobacco | 183 |
| 8 | On the Beginnings of the Sugar-Producing Industry in America | 254 |
| 9 | "Cachimbos" and "Cachimbas" | 267 |
| 10 | How the Sugar "Ingenio" Has Always Been the Favored Child of Capitalism | 267 |
| 11 | The First Transatlantic Shipments of Sugar | 282 |
| 12 | How Havana Tobacco Embarked Upon Its Conquest of the World | 283 |
| Glossary | 311 |