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

Show other versions (2)

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schwartz, Stuart B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Business & Economics.
Industries.
Suikerhandel.
Slavernij.
Plantage-economie.
Suikerrietplantages.
Zuckerrohranbau
Kolonialismus
Sklaverei
Zuckerhandel
Sugar trade.
Slavery.
Plantations.
Capitalism.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Food Industry.
Capitalisme > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Esclavage > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Plantations > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Sucre > Industrie > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Capitalism > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Plantations > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Sugar trade > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Atlantischer Raum
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 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.

Similar Items