Juan Jose Ponce Vazquez (Tuscaloosa University of Alabama)

Islanders and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Islanders and Empire is a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the role smuggling played in the economic and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries that will interest students and scholars of the Caribbean, colonial Latin American, and the Atlantic World.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781108702485
• ISBN-10: 1108702481
• Artikelnr.: 62846464

Autorenporträt

Juan José Ponce Vázquez is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Colonial Origins: Hispaniola in the Sixteenth Century
2. Smuggling, Sin, and Survival, 1580-1600
3. Repressing Smugglers: The Depopulations of Hispaniola, 1604-06
4. Tools of Colonial Power: Officeholders, Violence, and Enslaved African Exploitation in Santo Domingo's Cabildo
5. 'Prime Mover of All Machinations': Rodrigo Pimentel, Smuggling, and the Artifice of Power
6. Neighbors, Rivals, and Partners: Non-Spaniards and the Rise of Saint-Domingue
Conclusion
Glossary of Spanish Terms
Bibliography
Index