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UNINA9910822808603321 |
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Titolo |
Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sugar trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History |
Plantations - Atlantic Ocean Region - History |
Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History |
Capitalism - Atlantic Ocean Region - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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