Tropical Babylons [electronic resource] : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.Description: 347 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.4/76641/0918210903 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9100.5 .T76 2004eb
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Contents:
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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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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