{"product_id":"the-spanish-caribbean-and-the-atlantic-world-in-the-long-sixteenth-century-9780803299573","title":"The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the foundational character of the region for the immediate postcontact Americas while also allowing room for debate and more subtle articulations of the period's historical diversity. . . . Educators will benefit from assigning the book in its entirety to specialized classes or using its many valuable individual essays to fill in the cracks of Latin American, Caribbean, or Atlantic history syllabi.\"—Jesse Cromwell, H-LatAm\u003cbr\u003e\"Covering both standard topics and less conventional subjects, this volume reminds us of the multiple research opportunities related to the sixteenth-century Caribbean that still deserve attention from scholars. It also provides plentiful evidence that the early colonial Spanish Caribbean functioned as a social, economic, and immigration incubator for the Atlantic world with far-reaching ramifications.\"—Daniel S. Murphree, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The editors have assembled a uniformly strong collection of essays. This is essential reading for those interested in Iberian America, the West Indies, and the Atlantic world. Bravo to Altman and Wheat!”—Carla G. Pestana, professor of history and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e“This extremely interesting collection of highly original, engagingly written essays demonstrates persuasively the enormous richness and tantalizing complexity of the initial century of contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans in the Caribbean. This work provides a wonderful window on the early Americas.”—Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e“This excellent volume brings together the work of veteran historians with that of a new generation of scholars in a series of detailed and innovative studies.”—Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Ida Altman and David Wheat\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Indians in the Early Spanish Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494–1517\u003cbr\u003e Lauren MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Revolt of Agüeybaná II: Puerto Rico’s Interisland Connections\u003cbr\u003e Cacey Farnsworth\u003cbr\u003e 3. War and Rescate: The Sixteenth-Century Circum-Caribbean Indigenous Slave Trade\u003cbr\u003e Erin Stone\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Europeans in the Islands\u003cbr\u003e 4. Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa: Ambition, Fear, and Politics in Early Cuba\u003cbr\u003e Ida Altman\u003cbr\u003e 5. Two Doñas: Aristocratic Women and Power in Colonial Cuba\u003cbr\u003e Shannon Lalor\u003cbr\u003e 6. Between Acceptance and Exclusion: Spanish Responses to Portuguese Immigrants in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e Brian Hamm\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Africans and the Spanish Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Early Slave Trade to Spanish America: Caribbean Pathways, 1530–1580\u003cbr\u003e Marc Eagle\u003cbr\u003e 8. Biafadas in Havana: West African Antecedents for Caribbean Social Interactions\u003cbr\u003e David Wheat\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Environment and Health\u003cbr\u003e 9. Environment and the Politics of Relocation in the Caribbean Port of Veracruz, 1519–1599\u003cbr\u003e J. M. H. Clark\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hospitals and Public Health in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e Pablo F. Gómez\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. International Commercial Networks\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Hispano-German Caribbean: South German Merchants and the Realities of European Consolidation, 1500–1540\u003cbr\u003e Spencer Tyce\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Azorean Connection: Trajectories of Slaving, Piracy, and Trade in the Early Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e Gabriel de Avilez Rocha\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405304373591,"sku":"9780803299573","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spanish-caribbean-and-the-atlantic-world-in-the-long-sixteenth-century-9780803299573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}