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General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Vol 2

New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century

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  1. Pieter C. Emmer
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  2. German Carrera Damas
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: The Creation of a new Caribbean society, 1492–1650

    • Horst Pietschmann
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Caribbean environment and early settlement

    • David Watts
    Pages 29-42

  4. The initial linkage with America: a general framework

    • Ruggiero Romano
    Pages 43-61

  5. The establishment of primary centres and primary plantations

    • Frank Moya Pons
    Pages 62-78

  6. Spanish expansion in America, 1492 to c. 1580

    • Horst Pietschmann
    Pages 79-113

  7. French, English and Dutch in the Lesser Antilles: from privateering to planting, c. 1550–c. 1650

    • Anne Pérotin-Dumon
    Pages 114-158

  8. Forced African settlement. The basis of forced settlement: Africa and its trading conditions

    • Enriqueta Vilá Vilar, Wim Klooster
    Pages 159-179

  9. Native society and the European occupation of the Caribbean islands and coastal Tierra Firme, 1492–1650

    • Neil L. Whitehead
    Pages 180-200

  10. The city in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1492–1650

    • Alfredo Castillero-Calvo
    Pages 201-246

  11. Intellectual, artistic and ideological aspects of cultures in the New World

    • Gustavo Martin-Fragachan
    Pages 247-307

  12. The cartography of the Caribbean, 1500–1650

    • David Buisseret
    Pages 308-318

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 319-344
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About this book

Volume 2 of the General History of the Caribbeancovers the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. This volume examines the early mining and planting in Espaniola, privateers and contraband traders, plantation societies, extinction of indigenous populations, and the beginning of the slave trade.

About the authors

Pieter C. Emmer is Professor of the History of the Expansion of Europe at the University of Leiden.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Vol 2

  • Book Subtitle: New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century

  • Editors: Pieter C. Emmer, German Carrera Damas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73767-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7590-4Published: 01 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-73767-3Published: 12 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 344

  • Topics: History of the Americas, Latin American Culture, Social History

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