ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Triangular Trade, Industrial Revolution

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Georgia Hartman

Document Summary

Anthro 41a lecture notes week 2: the colonization of the. +spanish previously cultivate in canary islands (off coast of africa) +first domesticated in 8000 bc in new guinea. 1516: columbus brought sugar cane to new world. Brazil became major producer of sugar in 16th century. Under mercantilism british mandate direction and goods of trade. Labor on new world sugar plantation was coerced. At the same time as system of free labor was developing in britian. ~must sell labor in order to make living. +key to providing labor force for industrial revolution. +see that wealth work generated tied to sugar production in new world. ~factory was earliest and pivotal to industrialization in britian in 18th century. ~assertion is important because industrial development is thought of as develop europe. +separation of labor tasks (some brute, others specialized, skilled) Mintz propose sugar plantation considered as factory and link free labor. Beginning of capitalist world economic system of it.