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This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia. Professor Schwartz examines this issue through little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and records. He delves into the larger structure of social and economic relations as well as a comparative perspective elsewhere in the Americas.Schwartz, Stuart B. is the author of 'Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Bahia, 1550-1835', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521313995 and ISBN 0521313996.
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