Atlantic world

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.

History & Culture

Oceans of Wine

David Hancock

English · 2009 edition

A major scholarly history reconstructing how the Madeira wine trade (c.1640–1815) shaped Atlantic commerce, self-organising merchant networks and American consumer taste.