You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This combination of events led to the Plantation Complex and the brutality and racism that came along with it. Free shipping for many products! 1. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History). In a way I shudder at the idea of reviewing a book like Philip D. Curtin's "The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History" for the simple fact that a book containing fourteen detailed essays is daunting to summarize. Hostname: page-component-7f44ffd566-kw2xh In addition to holding Guggenheim fellowships in 1966 and 1980 and being a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Curtin has taken a leadership role in various organizations, including the African Studies Association, the International Congress of Africanists, and the American Historical Association. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. In time, many of these crops could be grown in Christian Europe by diffusion through Cyprus, Sicily, Spain, and Portugal, though much of this diffusion came only in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. With regular contact between the Mediterranean basin and Mesopotamia, for example, date palms originally from Mesopotamia began to be grown wherever hot weather, low rainfall, and irrigation water were found together as far west as southern Morocco. The reviewer of Curtin's book soon realizes that such a question does not have an easy answer. This is definaltely a book to look at when studying the Atlantic and the slave movement. Thus, Curtin looks into understanding the need for the advancement of such systems. Message and data rates may apply. Find out more about saving content to . If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. The aspect of slaves relied on capturing people during war who ended up serving as workers. Apogee and Revolution: 9. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Subjects Subjects Slavery > America > History. Moreover, as the plantation was increasing in supply and offering the needed raw materials to European industries, why was it necessary to end the style of agriculture. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. Philip D. Curtin's The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex is a series of essays about the transnational entity that we have described here as "the Golden Circle" or the "South Atlantic System." These essays concentrate on that intercontinental perspective over the long run of more than a half-millenium from its first appearance to its fall at the end of the nineteenth century. in English - 2nd ed. The revolution in various parts of the colonies in the Americas brought the slave trade to an end, and eventually the plantation form of agriculture. , ISBN-13 While that generally feels dry and more than a little dull, in this instance author Philip D. Curtin puts forth a compelling rationale for his distant viewpoint. The dates and the process of ending slavery is expressed as being on different timelines. First half of the book frames slavery in light of the development, elaboration, and repeated transplantation of the plantation complex throughout the Atlantic world. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Students learning about the middle passage and slavery will benefit from his analysis. @free.kindle.com emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Atlantic history is metahistory, encompassing as it does some three or four hundred years and stretching through Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and North America. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex takes the reader throughout the Atlantic World as the plantation system is built up by European powers and then is decline as new technologies and abolitionist movements turned the tide against the system. The development of plantation farming was unique to Europeans as it was not practiced in the continent. In the latter, he demonstrated that the number of Africans who reached the New World during the centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade had been highly exaggerated. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact. The Mediterranean need for workers on the farm is expressed as starting in the 1200s and before. Atlantic history is a hot topic from what I've gathered, what with books like Marcus Rediker's "The Many Headed Hydra" gaining quite a lot of attention in the academic world. Despite the slight assumptions, the book offers accurate data on the period and various changes in the regional politics and social structure of the world. Having trouble finding the perfect essay? Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Press? This is a volume of macrohistory that will be extremely useful for students. Phillip Curtin looks at the advancement of plantation farming as originating from the crusaders era. Although for Curtin the principal elements of the complex were the slave-based plantations that grew tropical staples, he demonstrates how Indian fabrics, Spanish American silver, and European commercial and political organization were also fundamental to the plantation complex. The account of the stepwise demise of slavery in Brazil was also very enlightening, especially how emancipation became an economic opportunity for entire classes of slaveholding plantation owners in the 1870's, similar to "mass layoffs" today. The existing literature is, The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. Learn more. Then again, maybe I think it's a pressing subject since I've read several books on the theme for a class at school. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. No exotic animals. Not a page turner but a breathtaking work of synthesis. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact. At The Rise, the dining options are endless. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! And Africas exceptional place in Western thought continued well into the twentieth century (29). Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. To save content items to your account, Source: Journal of World History, Anyone interested in New World foundations should begin with this collection; even experts will find thought-provoking moments here.. Summary Europe's involvement in the plantation complex began when it encountered sugar in the eastern Mediterranean at the time of the Crusades. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex is a simple example of what I would call the "new atlantic history," written in an easy to read prose style that makes it accessible to anyone with an undergraduate level education. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Sponsored. As explained in the text, People of African descent were nevertheless the stereotypical slaves in Western societies from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, and this fact of history was one source of Western suppositions about alleged African racial inferiority. The book captures the demand in Europe and the development of slavery in the Americas in response to the plantation complex as well as factors of morality, leading to the ending of slavery in the Americas. . 1. Monthly rent $20 per pet. 10, First Avenue,Muswell Hill,New York, United States. ), Find out more about saving to your Kindle, Book: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819414.003. You acknowledge that such data will be used for the purpose of fulfilling the request in which the form you are submitting is applicable. The plantation compex was much more than an economic order for the tropical Americas alone; it had an important place in world history. The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 - 9780367602345. spices from the East Indies to the West Indies and then to Spain in the sixteenth and Starting with the early explorations of the Azores and the Canaries and branching out into the Caribbean this book follows the major powers of France, Spain, Great Britian and others as they built out empires in the Atlantic. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org Then enter the name part Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. This article explores the Spanish crown's efforts to study, cultivate, and transplant : Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Has data issue: true In the book, Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, written by Martin H. Charles. Please try again. Reply STOP to end. Curtin charts the rise of the Plantation complex in south America and the Caribbean with reference to the internal . Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Sit back relax and leave the writing to us. It serves its purpose admirably through a series of short essays that together present a history of the colonial South Atlantic. 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. Bureaucrats and freelances in Spanish America, Part II. Search for other works by this author on: Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 157158. Something went wrong. The people and land availability in the Caribbean allowed the formation of capitalistic plantations to readily develop in the region. If you have a motorcycle, it may be parked in the designated spaces for vehicles. It is also an excellent survey from which their teachers will benefit as well. Excellent. This series of essays provides uneven coverage. With the expansion of the farming lands, the need for workers was also on the rise in the Americas. Buy Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex 2nd edition (9780521629430) by Philip D. Curtin for up to 90% off at Textbooks.com. 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. Our Central Tower welcomes its residents' home with a warm sense of luxury featuring custom dark cabinetry in the kitchen and bathroom spaces as well as spacious bathtubs along with tiled backsplashes and quartz countertops. The mature plantations of the Americas were the most specialized economies of their size yet to appear or to depend on goods carried over such great distances - inputs in food, labor, and supplies; outputs in tropical staples. The upper south, the appalachians, texas, are a whole other scene. The book is educative and intriguing to read as it offers detailed data on the structure of politics and society in the Atlantic islands and Americas as well as the role of Europe and Africa in enhancing the plantation complex. Neglected, however, are British North America and the U. S. South, which Curtin believes were structurally and demographically different from the heart of the plantation complex represented by the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Long-distance trade had existed in Africa between various communities, thus tapping into the system allowed the merchants to acquire slaves from the region. Over a period of several centuries, Europeans overseas developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture - a plantation complex - that was different from the agricultural institutions they, Abstract This article investigates the powerful normative role of plantation-oriented agricultural practices in what was arguably the premier indigenous crop revolution of the colonial era: the West, Abstract There has been a long-standing debate on the global importance of the African external slave trades. Total views: 0 * In the latter, he demonstrated that the number of Africans who reached the New World during the centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade had been highly exaggerated. The description of the politics behind the development of the slave trade was interesting to read as it offered not only information on the past but also the present aspects of racism in the world. Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2009. He also has gained recognition for his influential books on African history, including The Image of Africa (1964), Africa Remembered (1967), and The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969). Which essay should receive the most attention? Beginnings: 1. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. In the trade, Africans who were sold by the North Africans were sold and became slaves in Europe. There was a problem loading your book clubs. To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org The style of plantations in the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands was different based on the number of people and the availability of different resources. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history. Capitalism 4. Curtin charts the rise of the Plantation complex in south America and the Caribbean with reference to the internal . 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