Tropical Babylons [electronic resource] : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Stuart B | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004Description: 347 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Sugar trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History | Plantations -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History | Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History | Capitalism -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.4/76641/0918210903 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.
Introduction / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Sugar in Iberia / William D. Phillips Jr. -- Sugar islands : the sugar economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450-1650 / Alberto Vieira -- The sugar economy of Espa�nola in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodr�iguez Morel -- Sugar and slavery in early colonial Cuba / Alejandro De La Fuente -- A commonwealth within itself : the early Brazilian sugar industry, 1550-1670 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- The Atlantic slave trade to 1650 / Herbert Klein -- The expansion of the sugar market in Western Europe / Eddy Stols -- The sugar industry in the seventeenth century : a new perspective on the Barbadian "sugar revolution" / John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard.
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