The rise and fall of the plantation complex : essays in Atlantic history

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅸ
• Preface to first edition = xi
• Beginnings
• 1 The Mediterranean origins = 3
• Sugar planting = 4
• Cyprus = 5
• The Mediterranean slave trade = 8
• The mature plantation complex = 10
• Forms of cultural encounter = 13
• 2 Sugar planting : from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands = 17
• The Atlantic islands = 18
• Colonial institutions : the Canaries = 22
• The westward migration = 23
• To the Americas = 25
• Why migration? = 27
• 3 Africa and the slave trade = 29
• African isolation = 29
• Political forms south of the Sahara = 33
• The trans-Sahara trade = 35
• Disease and isolation = 38
• African, Muslim, and European slavery = 40
• The beginning of the Atlantic trade = 42
• 4 Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil = 46
• Feudalism and capitalism = 46
• Intentions and experiments in Brazil = 48
• The sugar industry = 51
• Feudalism from below = 53
• Local government = 55
• 5 Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America = 58
• Frontiers : freedom and anarchy versus despotism and slavery = 58
• The crown and the bureaucracy = 59
• Intentions and achievements in the American world = 62
• The West Indies = 63
• Mexico = 64
• Encomienda = 68
• The return of the bureaucrats = 69
• Seventeenth-century transition
• 6 The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean = 73
• Caribbean geography = 73
• European settlement = 77
• The economics of sugar and disease = 79
• The sugar revolution = 81
• 7 Anarchy and imperial control = 86
• "No peace beyond the lines" = 87
• Buccaneers and transfrontiersmen = 92
• 8 Slave societies on the periphery = 98
• Differential population growth = 98
• Placer gold = 100
• Bandeirantes = 102
• Slave revolts and maroon settlements = 103
• The settlement colonies = i08
• Apogee and revolution
• 9 The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century = 113
• Prices = 113
• The economics of supply = 116
• Political enslavement = 119
• Economic enslavement = 122
• Rising demand - rising exports = 125
• Assessing the damage = 126
• 10 Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century = 129
• Bureaucrats and private traders = 129
• Commodities in the African trade = 133
• The conduct of the African trade = 135
• Merchants and planters = 139
• Caribbean trade = 141
• 11 The Democratic Revolution in the Atlantic basin = 144
• The Democratic Revolution = 144
• Industrialism, capitalism, and imperialism = 145
• Background : economic, social, and political = 147
• The Enlightenment = 149
• Realignments in the colonial world = 151
• Democratic revolutions and the plantation complex = 153
• Counterrevolution in Spanish America = 155
• 12 Revolution in the French Antilles = 158
• Geography of the French Antilles = 158
• Social structure and social tensions = 160
• The revolution on Saint Domingue = 163
• Other islands, other combinations = 168
• Aftermath
• 13 Readjustments in the nineteenth century = 173
• The end of the slave trade = 174
• New migrations : new wine in old bottles = 175
• The end of slavery in the French and British Caribbean = 177
• New plantations : old wine in new bottles = 178
• African adjustments = 180
• The politics and economics of legitimate trade = 183
• 14 The end of slavery in the Americas = 189
• Brazil : sugar and coffee = 190
• Brazil : differential regional growth = 193
• Sugar in Cuba = 196
• Emancipation in Cuba = 197
• Retrospect = 204
• Appendix = 207
• Index = 213