The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex:

Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas that was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact.

Preface

ix

(2)

Preface to first edition

xi

Beginnings

3

(70)

1 The Mediterranean origins

3

(14)

Sugar planting

4

(1)

Cyprus

5

(3)

The Mediterranean slave trade

8

(2)

The mature plantation complex

10

(3)

Forms of cultural encounter

13

(4)

2 Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands

17

(12)

The Atlantic islands

18

(4)

Colonial institutions: the Canaries

22

(1)

The westward migration

23

(2)

To the Americas

25

(2)

Why migration?

27

(2)

3 Africa and the slave trade

29

(17)

African isolation

29

(4)

Political forms south of the Sahara

33

(2)

The trans-Sahara trade

35

(3)

Disease and isolation

38

(2)

African, Muslim, and European slavery

40

(2)

The beginning of the Atlantic trade

42

(4)

4 Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil

46

(12)

Feudalism and capitalism

46

(2)

Intentions and experiments in Brazil

48

(3)

The sugar industry

51

(2)

Feudalism from below

53

(2)

Local government

55

(3)

5 Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America

58

(15)

Frontiers: freedom and anarchy versus despotism and slavery

58

(1)

The crown and the bureaucracy

59

(3)

Intentions and achievements in the American world

62

(1)

The West Indies

63

(1)

Mexico

64

(4)

Encomienda

68

(1)

The return of the bureaucrats

69

(4)

Seventeenth-century transition

73

(40)

6 The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean

73

(13)

Caribbean geography

73

(4)

European settlement

77

(2)

The economics of sugar and disease

79

(2)

The sugar revolution

81

(5)

7 Anarchy and imperial control

86

(12)

"No peace beyond the lines"

87

(5)

Buccaneers and transfrontiersmen

92

(6)

8 Slave societies on the periphery

98

(15)

Differential population growth

98

(2)

Placer gold

100

(2)

Bandeirantes

102

(1)

Slave revolts and maroon settlements

103

(5)

The settlement colonies

108

(5)

Apogee and revolution

113

(60)

9 The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century

113

(16)

Prices

113

(3)

The economics of supply

116

(3)

Political enslavement

119

(3)

Economic enslavement

122

(3)

Rising demand -- rising exports

125

(1)

Assessing the damage

126

(3)

10 Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century

129

(15)

Bureaucrats and private traders

129

(4)

Commodities in the African trade

133

(2)

The conduct of the African trade

135

(4)

Merchants and planters

139

(2)

Caribbean trade

141

(3)

11 The Democratic Revolution in the Atlantic basin

144

(14)

The Democratic Revolution

144

(1)

Industrialism, capitalism, and imperialism

145

(2)

Background: economic, social, and political

147

(2)

The Enlightenment

149

(2)

Realignments in the colonial world

151

(2)

Democratic revolutions and the plantation complex

153

(2)

Counterrevolution in Spanish America

155

(3)

12 Revolution in the French Antilles

158

(15)

Geography of the French Antilles

158

(2)

Social structure and social tensions

160

(3)

The revolution on Saint Domingue

163

(5)

Other islands, other combinations

168

(5)

Aftermath

173

(34)

13 Readjustments in the nineteenth century

173

(16)

The end of the slave trade

174

(1)

New migrations: new wine in old bottles

175

(2)

The end of slavery in the French and British Caribbean

177

(1)

New plantations: old wine in new bottles

178

(2)

African adjustments

180

(3)

The politics and economics of legitimate trade

183

(6)

14 The end of slavery in the Americas

189

(18)

Brazil: sugar and coffee

190

(3)

Brazil: differential regional growth

193

(3)

Sugar in Cuba

196

(1)

Emancipation in Cuba

197

(7)

Retrospect

204

(3)

Appendix

207

(6)

Index

213

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