Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Sugar in Iberia / William D. Phillips Jr. -- Sugar islands : the sugar economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450-1650 / Alberto Vieira -- Sugar economy of Espaņola in the sixteenth century / Genaro Rodriguez Morel -- Sugar and slavery in early colonial Cuba / Alejandro De La Fuente -- Commonwealth within itself : the early Brazilian sugar industry, 1550-1670 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Atlantic slave trade to 1650 / Herbert Klein -- Expansion of the sugar market in Western Europe / Eddy Stols -- Sugar industry in the seventeenth century : a new perspective on the Barbadian "sugar revolution" / John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard.
