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The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595-1630
Daniel Strum
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Description for The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595-1630
Hardback. Num Pages: 568 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DSP; 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 53. Weight in Grams: 4468.
This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this commerce. Indeed, trade supported Brazil's rise as the world's leading producer of sugar and the first great plantation colony. Likewise, the sugar trade boosted the economy of Portugal and contributed to the upsurge of the Dutch market. The increasing availability of sugar transformed the European diet (along with some medical theories); and sweets came to play an ... Read more
This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this commerce. Indeed, trade supported Brazil's rise as the world's leading producer of sugar and the first great plantation colony. Likewise, the sugar trade boosted the economy of Portugal and contributed to the upsurge of the Dutch market. The increasing availability of sugar transformed the European diet (along with some medical theories); and sweets came to play an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804787215
SKU
V9780804787215
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Daniel Strum
Daniel Strum is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Reviews for The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595-1630
"Taken together the chapters weave a 'thick description' of the sugar trade that draws on social, cultural, economic, and political history. They contribute to our understanding of the formation of the Atlantic economy and the establishment of sugar as a key element of capitalist modernity. The book may be read profitably - and indeed, pleasurably - by specialists and non-specialists." ... Read more