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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):185-187; doi:10.1093/es/khj016
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.

Stuart B. Schwartz. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2875-0, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5538-3, $22.50 (paper).

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This volume examines the surprisingly complex history of the westward shift in sugar production from the Mediterranean to America in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Many factors influenced this shift, including those most often studied: the rise and growth of merchant capital, slavery, and technological change. The local-level studies aggregated here reexamine this development and thereby reveal the complex evolution and the great . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jules R. Benjamin

Ithaca College


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