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Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680 / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz ; designed by Heidi Perov ; assistance of William R. Fondo Kenan Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: United States : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004Description: 347 páginasISBN:
  • 978-0-8078-5538-3
  • 978-0-8078-2875-0
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4 T856S
Contents:
Acknowledgments xi -- Note on Weights and Currencies xiii -- 1 Introduction: Stuart B. Schwartz 1 -- 2 Sugar in Iberia: William D. Phillips jr. 27 -- 3 Sugar Islands: The Sugar Economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450–1650: Alberto Vieira 42 -- 4 The Sugar Economy of Española in the Sixteenth Century: Genaro Rodríguez Morel 85 -- 5 Sugar and Slavery in Early Colonial Cuba: Alejandro de la Fuente 115 -- 6 A Commonwealth within Itself The Early Brazilian Sugar Industry, 1550–1670: Stuart B. Schwartz 158 -- 7 The Atlantic Slave Trade to 1650: Herbert Klein 201 -- 8 The Expansion of the Sugar Market in Western Europe: Eddy Stols 237 -- 9 The Sugar Industry in the Seventeenth Century A New Perspective on the Barbadian ‘‘Sugar Revolution’’ john j. mccusker and russell r. menard 289 -- Contributors 331 -- Index 333
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Acknowledgments xi -- Note on Weights and Currencies xiii -- 1 Introduction: Stuart B. Schwartz 1 -- 2 Sugar in Iberia: William D. Phillips jr. 27 -- 3 Sugar Islands: The Sugar Economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450–1650: Alberto Vieira 42 -- 4 The Sugar Economy of Española in the Sixteenth Century: Genaro Rodríguez Morel 85 -- 5 Sugar and Slavery in Early Colonial Cuba: Alejandro de la Fuente 115 -- 6 A Commonwealth within Itself
The Early Brazilian Sugar Industry, 1550–1670: Stuart B. Schwartz 158 -- 7 The Atlantic Slave Trade to 1650: Herbert Klein 201 -- 8 The Expansion of the Sugar Market in Western Europe: Eddy Stols 237 -- 9 The Sugar Industry in the Seventeenth Century A New Perspective on the Barbadian ‘‘Sugar Revolution’’ john j. mccusker and russell r. menard 289 -- Contributors 331 -- Index 333

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