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

by StuartB.Schwartz (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $57.96

  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.