The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History

ISBN: 9780521629430 出版年：1998 页码：238 Philip D Curtin Cambridge University Press

Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which 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.