TY - BOOK ID - 6767445 TI - Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic world, 1450-1680 PY - 2004 SN - 0807855383 0807828750 0807895628 9780807895627 9781469603667 1469603667 9780807855386 9780807828755 PB - Chapel Hill (N. C.): University of North Carolina press, DB - UniCat KW - Sugar trade KW - Plantations KW - Slavery KW - Capitalism KW - History KW - History. KW - Sugar bounties KW - Sugar industry KW - Sweetener industry KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Farms KW - Market economy KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - E-books KW - Industria azucarera KW - Azúcar KW - Plantaciones de azúcar KW - Esclavitud KW - Capitalismo KW - Historia KW - Comercio KW - Aspectos económicos. KW - Sugar trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History KW - Plantations - Atlantic Ocean Region - History KW - Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History KW - Capitalism - Atlantic Ocean Region - History KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6767445 AB - The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called ""sugar revolution."" The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.Focusing on areas colonized by Spain and Portugal (before the emergence of the Caribbean sugar colonies of ER -