Tropical Babylons
Subtitle: sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
By: edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.
Contributors: Schwartz, Stuart B.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Sugar trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.; Plantations -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.; Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.; Capitalism -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stuart B. Schwartz; title: Sugar in Iberia / William D. Phillips Jr.; title: Sugar islands : the sugar economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450-1650 / Alberto Vieira; title: The sugar economy of Española in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodríguez Morel; title: Sugar and slavery in early colonial Cuba / Alejandro De La Fuente; title: A commonwealth within itself : the early Brazilian sugar industry, 1550-1670 / Stuart B. Schwartz; title: The Atlantic slave trade to 1650 / Herbert Klein; title: The expansion of the sugar market in Western Europe / Eddy Stols; title: The sugar industry in the seventeenth century : a new perspective on the Barbadian "sugar revolution" / John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard.