LEADER 02926nam 22005054a 450 001 9910780980503321 005 20230120080007.0 010 $a0-8078-9562-8 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007754 035 $a(EBL)837905 035 $a(OCoLC)652280205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837905 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367490 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4401515 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007754 100 $a20040128d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 00$aTropical Babylons$b[electronic resource] $esugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 /$fedited by Stuart B. Schwartz 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5538-3 311 $a0-8078-2875-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index. 327 $aIntroduction / 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 Espan?ola in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodri?guez 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. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aSugar trade$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aPlantations$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aSlavery$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aCapitalism$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 615 0$aSugar trade$xHistory. 615 0$aPlantations$xHistory. 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aCapitalism$xHistory. 676 $a338.4/76641/0918210903 701 $aSchwartz$b Stuart B$0260128 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780980503321 996 $aTropical Babylons$93686717 997 $aUNINA