History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / Frank Moya Pons.
| Author/creator | Moya Pons, Frank, 1944- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©2007. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages) : map |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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? |
| Summary | From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners and led to bloody wars. This text explores the history, context and consequences of the major changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great Depression. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-383) and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Moya Pons, Frank, 1944- History of the Caribbean. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©2007 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781558767096 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1558767096 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | ((hardcover) ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | ((hardcover) ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |