Stuart B Schwartz
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English
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"Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University" "Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International" "Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University" Stuart B....
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English
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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 this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy...
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Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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"In 1519 Hernan Cortes and a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrew the mighty Mexican empire of the Aztecs. Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies - many recently uncovered - of indigenous Nahua survivors, Victors and Vanquished clearly demonstrates how personal interests, class and ethnic biases, and political considerations influenced the interpretation of these momentous events."--BOOK...
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Cambridge Latin American studies volume 46
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1983
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English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous peoples, Portuguese, and Africans in the formation of the first extensive plantation colony based on slavery in the Americas, and it also includes documents...
