1. daily.jstor.org

    Madeira, 560 kilometers due west of Morocco, is 741 square kilometers in size. Portuguese colonization begin there in 1420. The richly forested and uninhabited island was first seeded with cows, pigs, and sheep, who began the process of changing the landscape through grazing. The island was named for its timber (madeira), which became the first ...
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  3. theportugalnews.com

    With the combined production of Madeira and Thomé, Portugal had dominated world trade but the slump in prices amounted to a fall of 85% and forced the curtailment of activity in the two islands and the rise of Brazil as a pivotal world producer-This is a history of the birth of Portuguese capitalism which replaced the mediaeval system of ...
  4. worldhistory.org

    Madeira is the largest island in the group, 55 km (34 mi) long and 22 km (13.5 mi) at its widest part. The name refers to the plentiful forests on the island. Like the other islands in the group, Madeira is really the top of a submerged mountain and so is dominated by the Ruivo peak which soars 1,861 metres (6,106 ft) above the sea.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Modern capitalism resembles some elements of mercantilism in the early modern period between the 16th and 18th centuries. [20] [21] Early evidence for mercantilist practices appears in early modern Venice, Genoa, and Pisa over the Mediterranean trade in bullion. The region of mercantilism's real birth, however, was the Atlantic Ocean. [22]
  6. jasonwmoore.com

    t the rosy dawn of sixteenth-century capitalism, few places in this "vast but weak" world-economy1 were more pivotal than Madeira. A small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Ma-deira in 1500 was the greatest producer of early capitalism's most important cash crop, sugar. Every year between 1505 and 1509,
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    In 1419 two captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, were driven by a storm to the island they called Porto Santo, or Holy Harbour, in gratitude for their rescue from shipwreck.The next year an expedition was sent to populate the island, and, Madeira being described, they made for it, and took possession on behalf of the Portuguese crown ...
  8. cliffordthurlow.com

    The earliest form of modern capitalism began in 1420 when Portuguese settlers arrived on the island of Madeira in their tall galleons and began cutting down the trees. Spread out before them was a sub-tropical forest with rare species of animals. But what they saw wasn't an island paradise. They saw an opportunity. They saw a commodity.
  9. colour.ics.ulisboa.pt

    Madeira is also the birth site of the modern plantation system. In 1425, Madeira became the first stopover of the sugar cane in that plant's trajectory from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, a crucial step in its longer journey from New Guinea to the four corners of the world. It was in the Atlantic colonies
  10. researchgate.net

    In what follows, the first of two successive essays in this journal, I explain how this epoch-making acceleration of boom and bust on Madeira, during Braudel's (1953) "first" sixteenth ...
  11. researchgate.net

    At the rosy dawn of sixteenth century capitalism, few places in this "vast but weak" world-economy were more pivotal than Madeira. A small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira ...
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