General History of the Caribbean Volume II: New societies: The Carib
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 t
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General History of the Caribbean TITLES IN THE SERIES
Volume I Autochthonous Societies Volume II
New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century Volume III The Slave Societies of the Caribbean
Volume IV The Long Nineteenth Century: Nineteenth-Century Transformations Volume V The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century Volume VI
Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean
General History
of the Caribbean Volume II New societies: The Caribbean in the long sixteenth century
Editor: Pieter C. Emmer Co-editor: German Carrera Damas
palgrave macmillan
UNESCO Publishing
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CONTENTS
Preface
Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO
Description of the Project
Professor Sir Roy Augier .
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List of Contributors
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List of tables
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Plates .
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Map: The Caribbean .
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Introduction: The creation of a new Caribbean society, 1492-1650 Horst Pietsch mann and Pieter C. Emmer .
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The Caribbean environment and early settlement David Watts .
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The initial linkage with America: a general framework Ruggiero Romano .
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The establishment of primary centres and primary plantations Frank Moya Pons .
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Spanish expansion in America, 1492 to c. 1580 Hor
