This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new…mehr
This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jan Rogozinski is the author of Caste, Power, and Law: Social Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Montpellier; Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean; and A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. He earned an MA and a PhD from Princeton University, and has taught history courses at universities in Cambridge, Chicago, Miami, and New York. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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List of Tables List of Maps Preface Part One: The Caribbean Under Spanish Rule 1. The Enduring Environment and the First Islanders 2. Discovery of the Islands 3. Pirates Fight for Spanish Gold 4. Spain's Caribbean Colonies Part Two: Northern Europeans Come to Stay 5. The Dutch Empire 6. Settlement of the Lesser Antilles 7. The Buccaneers of Jamica, Saint-Domingue, and the Bahamas 8. War and Piracy, 1665-1720 Part Three: The Sugar Empire 9. Sugar Rules the Islands 10. The World of the Slaves 11. England and France Struggle to Control the Islands 12. Runaways and Rebels Part Four: The Abolition of Slavery and the Challenges of Freedom 13. The British Colonies 14. The Spanish Islands Fight for Freedom 15. Hispaniola and the Leeward Islands Part Five: Poverty and Progress in the Caribbean Since 1914 16. Cuba During the 20th Century 17. The Dominican Republic and Haiti 18. Colonialism's Mixed Blessings 19. The British Colonies Gain Independence 20. Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and the Bahamas Since Independence 21. The English-Speaking Eastern Caribbean States Appendix: Maps Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Photo Credits Index
List of Tables List of Maps Preface Part One: The Caribbean Under Spanish Rule 1. The Enduring Environment and the First Islanders 2. Discovery of the Islands 3. Pirates Fight for Spanish Gold 4. Spain's Caribbean Colonies Part Two: Northern Europeans Come to Stay 5. The Dutch Empire 6. Settlement of the Lesser Antilles 7. The Buccaneers of Jamica, Saint-Domingue, and the Bahamas 8. War and Piracy, 1665-1720 Part Three: The Sugar Empire 9. Sugar Rules the Islands 10. The World of the Slaves 11. England and France Struggle to Control the Islands 12. Runaways and Rebels Part Four: The Abolition of Slavery and the Challenges of Freedom 13. The British Colonies 14. The Spanish Islands Fight for Freedom 15. Hispaniola and the Leeward Islands Part Five: Poverty and Progress in the Caribbean Since 1914 16. Cuba During the 20th Century 17. The Dominican Republic and Haiti 18. Colonialism's Mixed Blessings 19. The British Colonies Gain Independence 20. Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and the Bahamas Since Independence 21. The English-Speaking Eastern Caribbean States Appendix: Maps Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Photo Credits Index
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