Tropical Babylons

Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

• Author(s): Stuart B. Schwartz,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 347
• ISBN_10: 0807828750
  ISBN_13: 9780807828755
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Latin America / South America , Business & Economics / Economic History , Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness , History / Caribbean & West Indies / General ,

Description:... 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 th