02960nam 22005174a 450 991045642730332120200520144314.00-8078-9562-8(CKB)2520000000007754(EBL)837905(OCoLC)652280205(MiAaPQ)EBC837905(MiAaPQ)EBC4401515(Au-PeEL)EBL837905(CaPaEBR)ebr10367490(EXLCZ)99252000000000775420040128d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||Tropical Babylons[electronic resource] sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 /edited by Stuart B. SchwartzChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (364 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5538-3 0-8078-2875-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.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.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 ofSugar tradeAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryPlantationsAtlantic Ocean RegionHistorySlaveryAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryCapitalismAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryElectronic books.Sugar tradeHistory.PlantationsHistory.SlaveryHistory.CapitalismHistory.338.4/76641/0918210903Schwartz Stuart B260128MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456427303321Tropical Babylons2262571UNINA