Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848
  • The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848
  • The local face of world process
  • Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production
  • The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production
  • Obstacles to innovation
  • A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor
  • The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing
  • Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.