From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. |
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... Spanish colonial system in the Caribbean . The Caribbean colonies became a royal monopoly and the Caribbean Sea became mare clausum , the closed sea , closed to all but Spanish trade , Spanish govern- ment , Spanish religion , Spanish ...
... Spanish colonial system in the Caribbean . The Caribbean colonies became a royal monopoly and the Caribbean Sea became mare clausum , the closed sea , closed to all but Spanish trade , Spanish govern- ment , Spanish religion , Spanish ...
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... Spanish inheritance . The Spanish brides of Kings Louis XIII and XIV of France in the seventeenth century had explicitly renounced all hereditary rights on the Spanish succession . But , at the end of the century , King Charles II of ...
... Spanish inheritance . The Spanish brides of Kings Louis XIII and XIV of France in the seventeenth century had explicitly renounced all hereditary rights on the Spanish succession . But , at the end of the century , King Charles II of ...
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... Spanish colonies . Britain's victory in the war meant the transfer of the asiento from France to her rival , ' the ... Spanish colonies with British merchandise . The cargo of the ' annual ship ' was to be sold only at the time of the ...
... Spanish colonies . Britain's victory in the war meant the transfer of the asiento from France to her rival , ' the ... Spanish colonies with British merchandise . The cargo of the ' annual ship ' was to be sold only at the time of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Westward Ho | 13 |
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies | 18 |
Copyright | |
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 Eric Williams No preview available - 1983 |
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