Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico, USA Sidney M. Greenfield, Stuart B. Schwartz, Richard Graham, Colin M. MacLachlan, Robert J. Ferry, Philip D. Morgan, Michael L. Nicholls, Daniel C. Littlefield, Richard S. Dunn, Karen Fog Olwig, David Geggus, Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Sidney W. Mintz.

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1 'This book goes a long way to help us understand that there is no all-purpose definition of a plantation society... far from making the case for Europe's omnipotence, Plantation Societies offers rich detail from around the hemisphere that, to borrow a phrase from Mechal Sobel, became "the world they made together."' Journal of World History

• Contents: Introduction; European antecedents to plantation economies in the Americas: sugar and slaves: Plantations, sugar cane and slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield; Brazil: Indian labour and New World plantations: European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil, Stuart B. Schwartz; Slave families on a rural estate in Colonial Brazil, Richard Graham; African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800, Colin M. MacLachlan; Spanish America: Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in 17th-century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry; British America: Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790, Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls; Plantations, paternalism and profitability: factors affecting African demography in the Old British Empire, Daniel C. Littlefield; A tale of two plantations: slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828, Richard S. Dunn; Danish Caribbean: Slaves and slave masters on 18th-century St. John, Karen Fog Olwig; French Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations, David Geggus; Comparative Theory: Caribbean: Freedom and oppression of slaves in the 18th-century Caribbean, Arthur L. Stinchcombe; Was the plantation slave a proletarian?, Sidney W. Mintz; Index.

Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico, USA Sidney M. Greenfield, Stuart B. Schwartz, Richard Graham, Colin M. MacLachlan, Robert J. Ferry, Philip D. Morgan, Michael L. Nicholls, Daniel C. Littlefield, Richard S. Dunn, Karen Fog Olwig, David Geggus, Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Sidney W. Mintz.

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1 'This book goes a long way to help us understand that there is no all-purpose definition of a plantation society... far from making the case for Europe's omnipotence, Plantation Societies offers rich detail from around the hemisphere that, to borrow a phrase from Mechal Sobel, became "the world they made together."' Journal of World History

• Contents: Introduction; European antecedents to plantation economies in the Americas: sugar and slaves: Plantations, sugar cane and slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield; Brazil: Indian labour and New World plantations: European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil, Stuart B. Schwartz; Slave families on a rural estate in Colonial Brazil, Richard Graham; African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800, Colin M. MacLachlan; Spanish America: Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in 17th-century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry; British America: Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790, Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls; Plantations, paternalism and profitability: factors affecting African demography in the Old British Empire, Daniel C. Littlefield; A tale of two plantations: slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828, Richard S. Dunn; Danish Caribbean: Slaves and slave masters on 18th-century St. John, Karen Fog Olwig; French Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations, David Geggus; Comparative Theory: Caribbean: Freedom and oppression of slaves in the 18th-century Caribbean, Arthur L. Stinchcombe; Was the plantation slave a proletarian?, Sidney W. Mintz; Index.

Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico, USA Sidney M. Greenfield, Stuart B. Schwartz, Richard Graham, Colin M. MacLachlan, Robert J. Ferry, Philip D. Morgan, Michael L. Nicholls, Daniel C. Littlefield, Richard S. Dunn, Karen Fog Olwig, David Geggus, Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Sidney W. Mintz.

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1 'This book goes a long way to help us understand that there is no all-purpose definition of a plantation society... far from making the case for Europe's omnipotence, Plantation Societies offers rich detail from around the hemisphere that, to borrow a phrase from Mechal Sobel, became "the world they made together."' Journal of World History

• Contents: Introduction; European antecedents to plantation economies in the Americas: sugar and slaves: Plantations, sugar cane and slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield; Brazil: Indian labour and New World plantations: European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil, Stuart B. Schwartz; Slave families on a rural estate in Colonial Brazil, Richard Graham; African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800, Colin M. MacLachlan; Spanish America: Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in 17th-century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry; British America: Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790, Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls; Plantations, paternalism and profitability: factors affecting African demography in the Old British Empire, Daniel C. Littlefield; A tale of two plantations: slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828, Richard S. Dunn; Danish Caribbean: Slaves and slave masters on 18th-century St. John, Karen Fog Olwig; French Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations, David Geggus; Comparative Theory: Caribbean: Freedom and oppression of slaves in the 18th-century Caribbean, Arthur L. Stinchcombe; Was the plantation slave a proletarian?, Sidney W. Mintz; Index.