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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Stuart B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Sugar trade.

Plantations--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Plantations.

Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Slavery.

Capitalism--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Capitalism.

History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

Summary:

This collection of original essays provides a comparative study of early Caribbean sugar economies as well as a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world. Schwartz also examines the role of plantation colonies in the formation of multiracial, oppressive societies.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807828750

0807855383

OCLC:

54206797