Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680 by Stuart B. Schwartz

Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

Stuart B. Schwartz

368 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates t...

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