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Tropical Babylons : Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 /

"Tropical Babylons' explores the early development of the sugar industry across the Atlantic world, using case studies from Iberia, Brazil, islands of the Caribbean & of the Atlantic itself to illustrate the differences in technology, plantation management & the social consequences...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schwartz, Stuart B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Española in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodríguez 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.