History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / Frank Moya Pons.

Author/creator Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-
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Publication InfoPrinceton : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©2007.
Description1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages) : map
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 320-383) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Moya Pons, Frank, 1944- History of the Caribbean. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©2007
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