出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This article studies the basic characteristics of the Brazilian sugar economy between 1560 and 1660, when it became the main sugar producer in the Atlantic world. Firstly, it analyzes the conditions that made possible the position held by Brazil in the context of a Euro-American trade system. Secondly, it studies the local conditions in which it developed, and the challenges posed by three factors: land, work and capital, all of which furnished the early Brazilian sugar industry with the characteristics that have made it peculiar. Finally, the article studies the quick expansion it underwent up to 1620, and the reasons of its stagnation even before the appearance after 1650 of new competitors in the Caribbean.
关键词：Brazil;Portugal;Holland;16h-17th Centuries;sugar;market;production factors;Brasil;Portugal;Holanda;siglos XVI-XVII;azúcar;mercado;factores de producción
