Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

by StuartB.Schwartz (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $22.69

  The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. Nine essays by a multinational group of scholars re-evaluate this so-called sugar revolution, presenting a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $54.83

  The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. Nine essays by a multinational group of scholars re-evaluate this so-called sugar revolution, presenting a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.