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AuthorJames Hancock
PublisherWorld History Encyclopedia
URLhttps://www.worldhistory.org/article/1784/sugar--the-rise-of-the-plantation-system/
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier2
A nonprofit history encyclopedia with named article authors and an editorial review process, though not peer reviewed in the academic sense; this article's author, James Hancock, is an emeritus professor of crop evolution and trade history at Michigan State University, writing within his own field. Sources
Sugar and the Rise of the Plantation System (World History Encyclopedia)
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