General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Vol 2: New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781403975904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 344 str.

Pieter C. Emmer; Pieter C. Emmer

Opis

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 traders, plantation societies, extinction of indigenous populations, and the beginning of the slave trade.

O autorze

Pieter C. Emmer is Professor of the History of the Expansion of Europe at the University of Leiden.