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The Lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion

Author: Robert L Paquette; Stanley L Engerman
Publisher: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Edition/Format:  Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Outgrowth of papers presented at conference marking Columbus' quincentennial and centering around new societies formed as a result of culture contact. Essays focus on precolumbian peoples of the Lesser Antilles and their earliest encounters with Europeans; imperial rivalries and wars and their impact on settlement patterns; and local societies, slavery, trade, and abolition. Highly useful"--Handbook of Latin  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert L Paquette; Stanley L Engerman
ISBN: 081301428X 9780813014289
OCLC Number: 33335323
Description: xii, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounters / William F. Keegan --
2. Visions of Cannibals: Distant Islands and Distant Lands in Taino World Image / Louis Allaire --
3. After the Encounter: Disease and Demographics in the Lesser Antilles / Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild C. Ornelas --
4. The Black Caribs of St. Vincent: A Reevaluation / Michael Craton --
5. English Settlement in the Lesser Antilles during War and Peace, 1603-1600 / John C. Appleby --
6. Redcoats and Slaves in the British Caribbean / Andrew O'Shaughnessy --
7. Crisscrossing Empires: Ships, Sailors, and Resistance in the Lesser Antilles in the Eighteenth Century / Julius S. Scott --
8. Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and Economic Expansion, 1600-1800 / Stanley L. Engerman --
9. Opportunity and Mobility in Early Barbados / Alison F. Games --
10. The British Transatlantic Slave Trade before 1714: Annual Estimates of Volume and Direction / David Eltis --
11. "Jesus Christ Was Good, but Trade Was Better": An Overview of the Transit Trade of the Dutch Antilles, 1634-1795 / P. C. Emmer --
12. Citizens of St. Eustatius, 1781: A Historical and Archaeological Study / Norman F. Barka --
13. Ameliorating Slavery: The Leeward Islands Slave Act of 1798 / David Barry Gaspar --
14. Free Coloreds and Slaves in Revolutionary Guadeloupe: Politics and Political Consciousness / Anne Perotin-Dumon --
15. The Slaves and Free Coloreds of Martinique during the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions: Three Moments of Resistance / David Geggus --
16. Beyond and Below the Merivale Paradigm: Dominica's First 100 Days of Freedom / Michel-Rolph Trouillot --
17. "Birth-Pangs of a New Order": Special Magistrate John Anderson and the Apprenticeship in St. Vincent / Roderick A. McDonald --
18. The Long Good-bye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective / Seymour Drescher.
Responsibility: edited by Robert L. Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman.
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"Outgrowth of papers presented at conference marking Columbus' quincentennial and centering around new societies formed as a result of culture contact. Essays focus on precolumbian peoples of the Lesser Antilles and their earliest encounters with Europeans; imperial rivalries and wars and their impact on settlement patterns; and local societies, slavery, trade, and abolition. Highly useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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