Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz
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Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/76641/0918210903 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sugar trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History |
| Plantations - Atlantic Ocean Region - History | |
| Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History | |
| Capitalism - Atlantic Ocean Region - History | |
| Altri autori: |
SchwartzStuart B
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tropical Babylons |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-9562-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822808603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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