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Stuart B. Schwartz

1 book about Madeira by Stuart B. Schwartz.

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History & Culture

With selection notes

Tropical Babylons

Stuart B. Schwartz

English · 2004 edition

Nine essays re-evaluating the early Atlantic “sugar revolution”, including a chapter on the sugar economy of Madeira and the Canaries, showing how Madeira pioneered the plantation-and-slavery model later exported to the Americas.