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Title:

Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

347 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Sugar trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Plantations--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Capitalism--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Suikerrietplantages.
Plantage-economie.
Slavernij.
Suikerhandel.
Sucre--Histoire.--Atlantique, Région de l'--Histoire.
Plantations--Atlantique, Région de l'--Histoire.
Esclavage--Atlantique, Région de l'--Histoire.
Capitalisme--Atlantique, Région de l'--Histoire.

Other Authors:

Schwartz, Stuart B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780807855386 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807855383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807828755 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807828750 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004001752

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)