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Tropical Babylons

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

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.

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Author
Stuart B. Schwartz
Edition year
2004
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780807855386

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