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2. Schnakenbourg, Christian: ‘From sugar state to central factory: the industrial revolution in the Caribbean (1840–1905)’, in Albert, Bill and Graves, Adrian (eds), Crisis and change in the international sugar economy 1860–1914, Norwich: ISC Press, 1985.
3. See Tilly, Charles: Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons, New York: Russell Sage, 1989, pp. 74–6
4. Tomich, Dale: ‘World slavery and Caribbean capitalism: the Cuban sugar industry, 1760–1868’, Theory and Society 20(3) (1991), pp. 113–15
5. Tomich, Dale and Zeuske, Michael: ‘The second slavery: mass slavery, world economy and comparative microhistories’, Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, XXXI, no. 3 (2008), pp. 91–100.