General history of the caribbean vol ii new societies : the caribbean in the -

• Date de parution : 01/02/2006
• Editeur : Unesco
• EAN : 9789231033575
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : (-)
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Sciences politiques
• Thème : Sciences politiques
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

The subject of Volume II of the General History of the Caribbean is the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on 12 October 1492, he ended the biological isolation of the American... Voir plus

The subject of Volume II of the General History of the Caribbean is the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on 12 October 1492, he ended the biological isolation of the American continent.
Thereafter, English, French, Dutch and African migrants, whether free, indentured or enslaved, crossed the ocean. With them came the political, economic, social and religious elements of the cultures of the Old World, which together would in time become Caribbean Creole culture.
This volume examines all the ingredients for creating new societies by conquest and occupation. It looks at the early mining and planting activities of the Spanish in Espaniola, the privateers and contraband traders from the other European countries, the plantation societies of the Lesser Antilles, the extinction of the indigenous population in the Greater Antilles, the wars against the Caribs, and the beginnings of the slave trade and slavery.
Volume II also studies the environment and the effects of European settlement, the making of cities and of maps, and discusses the intellectual, artistic and ideological cultures of people settling in a new world.