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Sugar and Ethanol

In: Brazilian Crops in the Global Market

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  • Herbert S. Klein
  • Francisco Vidal Luna

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The production and export of sugar defined the colonial history of Brazil. It was here that the first modern slave-based plantation system was created in America. Up through the end of the seventeenth century, it was the dominant Atlantic producer of sugar. Although production continued to grow it was replaced in world markets in the eighteenth century by West Indian growers and was late to modernize in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet today it is once again the world’s dominant producer of sugar and the second largest producer of ethanol. How and why these changes occurred is the theme of this chapter in which we explore the rise of the modern sugar and ethanol industries in Brazil.

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  • Herbert S. Klein & Francisco Vidal Luna, 2023. "Sugar and Ethanol," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Brazilian Crops in the Global Market, chapter 0, pages 203-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-38589-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38589-6_8
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