The Disputatious Caribbean The West Indies in the Seventeenth Centur

This history of the 'Torrid Zone' offers a comprehensive and powerfully rich exploration of the 17th century Anglophone Atlantic world, overturning British and American historiographies and offering instead a vernacular history that skillfully negotiates

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The Disputatious Caribbean

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The West Indies in the Seventeenth Century Sarah Barber

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The Disputatious Caribbean

the disputatious caribbean

Copyright © Sarah Barber, 2014. All rights reserved.

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List of Figures and Table

ix

Preface

xi

List of Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: Disputation

1

1 Place

9

2 Resource

45

3 Connection

83

4 Body

119

5 Will

155

Conclusion: Design

193

Notes

197

Bibliographical Essay

253

Index

259

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