The export boom in Barbados -- Land and labor during the export boom -- Who financed the sugar boom? -- The growth of the Barbadian sugar industry over the seventeenth century -- Origins of the Barbadian plantation complex -- The expansion of Barbados -- Epilogue: rethinking the sugar revolution.

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...