From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of 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. |
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Page 56
... received a peonia , a modest grant of land , together with gifts of wheat , corn and cattle . The noble- men , the caballero , received a caballeria ( which has since become the standard Cuban measure ) approximately thirty - three ...
... received a peonia , a modest grant of land , together with gifts of wheat , corn and cattle . The noble- men , the caballero , received a caballeria ( which has since become the standard Cuban measure ) approximately thirty - three ...
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... received a grant of land , from three to five acres . The system became one of the chief means of recruiting labour , skilled as well as unskilled . For example , one Jacques Dubourdieu , a surgeon , entered into an indenture with a ...
... received a grant of land , from three to five acres . The system became one of the chief means of recruiting labour , skilled as well as unskilled . For example , one Jacques Dubourdieu , a surgeon , entered into an indenture with a ...
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... received a gold medal from the American Philological Society for his Cadmus , or a Treatise on the Elements of Language , published in Philadelphia in 1793 . Thornton saw , too late , Jefferson's advertisement of a competi- tion for a ...
... received a gold medal from the American Philological Society for his Cadmus , or a Treatise on the Elements of Language , published in Philadelphia in 1793 . Thornton saw , too late , Jefferson's advertisement of a competi- tion for a ...
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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