| Description |
xiii, 402 p. : map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-383) and index. |
| Contents |
The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation? |
| Subject |
Caribbean Area -- History.
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| ISBN |
1558764143 ((hardcover) : alk. paper) |
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9781558764149 ((hardcover) : alk. paper) |
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1558764151 (pbk.) |
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9781558764156 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2544252 |
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YDXCP 2544253 |
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NZ1 11386269 |
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AU@ 000042466672 |
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