| Description |
xiii, 370 pages : map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-346) 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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Caribbean Area. |
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History. |
| ISBN |
1558764151 paperback |
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9781558764149 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1558764143 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781558764156 |
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