The rise and fall of the plantation complex : essays in Atlantic history / Philip D. Curtin.

Author
Curtin, Philip D. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd edition.
Published/​Created
Cambridge, U.K. : Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xiii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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        Subject(s)
        Series
        Studies in comparative world history [More in this series]
        Summary note
        Curtin approaches African slavery as part of a complex system of trading, slavery, and European socioeconomic control aimed at deriving profit from the rich lands of central and north America.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references and index.
        Contents
        1. The Mediterranean origins. --2. Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atllantic islands. --3. Africa and the slave trade. --4. Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil. --5. Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America. --6. The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean. --7. Anarchy and imperial control. --8. Slave societies on the periphery. --9. The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century. --10. Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century. --11. The democratic revolution in the Atlantic basin. --12. Revolution in the French Antilles. --13. Readjustments in the nineteenth century. --14. The end of slavery in the Americas.
        ISBN
        • 0521620767 ((hardbound))
        • 9780521620765 ((hardbound))
        • 0521629438 ((pbk.))
        • 9780521629430 ((pbk.))
        LCCN
        97022511
        OCLC
        37213517
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