Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex - Essays in Atlantic History

Klappentext A new edition of Philip Curtin's classic work on the history of the plantations. Zusammenfassung A new edition of Philip Curtin's classic work on the history of the plantations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Beginnings: 1. The Mediterranean origins; 2. Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands; 3. Africa and the slave trade; 4. Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil; 5. Bureaucrats and freelances in Spanish America; Part II. Seventeenth-Century Transition: 6. The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean; 7. Anarchy and imperial control; 8. Slave societies on the periphery; Part III. Apogee and Revolution: 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; Part IV. Aftermath: 13. Readjustments in the nineteenth century; 14. The end of slavery in the Americas; Retrospect.

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• Authors: Philip Curtin, Philip D. Curtin, Philip D. (The Johns Hopkins University) Curtin
• Assisted by: Edmund Burke (Editor), Edmund Iii Burke (Editor), Philip D. Curtin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.1998
• EAN: 9780521620765
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62076-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Comparative World H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous