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Author:

Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-

Title:

History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / Frank Moya Pons.

Publisher:

Markus Wiener Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiii, 370 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Caribbean Area--History.
Caribbean Region--History.
Karibik ; SWD-ID: 40732411

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-346) and index.

Contents:

The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?

ISBN:

9781558764149
1558764143
1558764151
9781558764156

LCCN:

2007019082

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)