Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion

AvRobert L. Paquette,Stanley L. Engerman

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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The history of the Lesser Antilles from the early colonial era through the end of slaveryThis collection offers the only single-volume study in English of the Lesser Antilles from the time of Columbus to the abolition of slavery. The essays show how the Lesser Antilles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were among the most densely populated and advanced economic zones in the world and how they served as stepping-stones for the expansion of the slave-based plantation system in the Americas.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-02-09
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:395
Förlag:University Press of Florida
ISBN:9780813081915

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Robert L. Paquette is president and executive director of The Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York. He is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas and the author of Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba, which won the Elsa Goveia Prize in Caribbean history.Stanley L. Engerman (1936-2023) was John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history at the University of Rochester. Among the many books he coauthored or coedited are Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, which won the Bancroft Prize, and British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery.