The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Philip Curtin, Edmund Burke (Editor), Philip D. Curtin (Editor)

Preface;

Part I. Beginnings:

1. The Mediterranean origins;
2. Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands;
3. Africa and the slave trade;
4. Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil;
5. Bureaucrats and freelances in Spanish America;

Part II. Seventeenth-Century Transition:
6. The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean;
7. Anarchy and imperial control;
8. Slave societies on the periphery;

Part III. Apogee and Revolution:
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;

Part IV. Aftermath:
13. Readjustments in the nineteenth century;
14. The end of slavery in the Americas; Retrospect.