Tropical Babylons
Subtitle: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807855386
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History: World; Economic History; World - Colonial Studies; History - General History; Plantations; Caribbean islands; South America; Industries - Agribusiness; History / Caribbean & West Indies; sugar plantations; Alantic world; Iberia; Madeira;  the Canaries; Hispaniola; Cuba; Brazil; Barbados; Atlantic sugar colonies; plantation colonies; sugar revolution; tropical Babylons; multiracial; oppressive societies; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Sugar trade; Latin America - South America; Atlantic Ocean Region; History; Slavery
First sentence: It has in recent years become something of a commonplace to say that the origins of merchant capital and slavery in th Atlantic world were intimately and intrinsically tied to the production of sugar.