"Students need to understand how market demand for certain staple crops created plantations and the slave- and then indentured-labor system, and this book explains it. The third entry in the Cunliffe Series, it examines the cultivation of American tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton in the context...

Introduction / Peter A. Coclanis -- The Dutch Atlantic economies / Jan de Vries -- Self-organized complexity and the emergence of an Atlantic market economy, 1651 1815 : the case of Madeira / David Hancock -- Cloth and the emergence of the Atlantic economy / Robert S. Duplessis -- The...