The rise and fall of the plantation complex : essays in Atlantic history / / Philip D. Curtin

• Autore: Curtin Philip D.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.3/62/0973
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - America - History; Plantation life - America - History
• Soggetto geografico: America Social conditions
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to first edition -- Beginnings -- The Mediterranean origins -- Sugar planting -- Cyprus -- The Mediterranean slave trade -- The mature plantation complex -- Forms of cultural encounter -- Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands -- The Atlantic islands -- Colonial institutions: the Canaries -- The westward migration -- To the Americas -- Why migration? -- Africa and the slave trade -- African isolation -- Political forms south of the Sahara -- The trans-Sahara trade -- Disease and isolation -- African, Muslim, and European slavery -- The beginning of the Atlantic trade -- Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil -- Feudalism and capitalism -- Intentions and experiments in Brazil -- The sugar industry -- Feudalism from below -- Local government -- Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America -- Frontiers: freedom and anarchy versus despotism and slavery -- The crown and the bureaucracy -- Intentions and achievements in the American world -- The West Indies -- Mexico -- Encomienda -- The return of the bureaucrats -- Seventeenth-century transition -- The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean -- Caribbean geography -- European settlement -- The economics of sugar and disease -- The sugar revolution -- Anarchy and imperial control -- "No peace beyond the lines" -- Buccaneers and transfrontiersmen -- Slave societies on the periphery -- Differential population growth -- Placer gold -- Bandeirantes -- Slave revolts and maroon settlements -- The settlement colonies -- Apogee and revolution -- The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century -- Prices -- The economics of supply -- Political enslavement -- Economic enslavement -- Rising demand - rising exports -- Assessing the damage. ; Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century -- Bureaucrats and private traders -- Commodities in the African trade -- The conduct of the African trade -- Merchants and planters -- Caribbean trade -- The Democratic Revolution in the Atlantic basin -- The Democratic Revolution -- Industrialism, capitalism, and imperialism -- Background: economic, social, and political -- The Enlightenment -- Realignments in the colonial world -- Democratic revolutions and the plantation complex -- Counterrevolution in Spanish America -- Revolution in the French Antilles -- Geography of the French Antilles -- Social structure and social tensions -- The revolution on Saint Domingue -- Other islands, other combinations -- Aftermath -- Readjustments in the nineteenth century -- The end of the slave trade -- New migrations: new wine in old bottles -- The end of slavery in the French and British Caribbean -- New plantations: old wine in new bottles -- African adjustments -- The politics and economics of legitimate trade -- The end of slavery in the Americas -- Brazil: sugar and coffee -- Brazil: differential regional growth -- Sugar in Cuba -- Emancipation in Cuba -- Retrospect -- Appendix -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Rise & Fall of the Plantation Complex
• Titolo autorizzato: The rise and fall of the plantation complex
• ISBN: 0-511-46612-9; 0-521-62943-8; 0-511-81941-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248103603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Studies in comparative world history.