Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-330) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Tropical Babylons' explores the early development of the sugar industry across the Atlantic world, using case studies from Iberia, Brazil, islands of the Caribbean & of the Atlantic itself to illustrate the differences in technology, plantation management & the social consequences of the 'sugar revolution."
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Title
Tropical Babylons.
International Standard Book Number
0807828750
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capitalism-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History.
Plantations-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History.
Slavery-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History.
Sugar trade-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History.
Capitalisme-- Atlantique, Région de l'-- Histoire.
Esclavage-- Atlantique, Région de l'-- Histoire.
Plantations-- Atlantique, Région de l'-- Histoire.
Sucre-- Industrie-- Atlantique, Région de l'-- Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Food Industry.