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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Summary:

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called ""sugar revolution."" The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.Focusing on areas colonized by Spain and Portugal (before the emergence of the Caribbean sugar colonies 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 Espanola in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodriguez 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908712-2-0

0-8078-9562-8

OCLC:

652280205