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

1. The Mediterranean origins.

2. Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atllantic islands.

3. Africa and the slave trade.

4. Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil.

5. Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America.

6. The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean.

7. Anarchy and imperial control.

8. Slave societies on the periphery.

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

10. Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century.

11. The democratic revolution in the Atlantic basin.

12. Revolution in the French Antilles.

13. Readjustments in the nineteenth century.

14. The end of slavery in the Americas.