Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.

Other author Schwartz, Stuart B.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Description347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004001752
ISBN0807828750 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807855383 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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