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  • The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century
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  • Ida Altman
  • 2019
  • Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.

In the sixteenth century no part of the Americas was more diverse; international; or as closely tied to Spain, the islands of the Atlantic, western Africa, and the Spanish American mainland than the Caribbean. The Caribbean experienced rapid growth during this period, displayed considerable ethnic and religious diversity, developed extensive networks of exchange both within and beyond the region, and played an important role in the broader Spanish colonization of the Americas. Contributors address topics such as the role of religious orders, the development of transatlantic and regional commercial systems, insular and regional political dynamics in relation to imperial objectives, the formation of colonial society, and the effects on Caribbean colonial society of the importation and incorporation of large numbers of indigenous captives and enslaved Africans.
 

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Maps
  2. p. ix
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  1. List of Tables
  2. p. x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Ida Altman and David Wheat
  3. pp. xiii-xxvi
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  1. Part 1
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. 1. The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494–1517
  2. Lauren MacDonald
  3. pp. 3-24
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  1. 2. The Revolt of Agüeybaná II: Puerto Rico’s Interisland Connections
  2. Cacey Farnsworth
  3. pp. 25-46
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  1. 3. War and Rescate: The Sixteenth-Century Circum-Caribbean Indigenous Slave Trade
  2. Erin Stone
  3. pp. 47-68
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  1. Part 2
  2. pp. 69-70
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  1. 4. Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa: Ambition, Fear, and Politics in Early Cuba
  2. Ida Altman
  3. pp. 71-90
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  1. 5. Two Doñas: Aristocratic Women and Power in Colonial Cuba
  2. Shannon Lalor
  3. pp. 91-112
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  1. 6. Between Acceptance and Exclusion: Spanish Responses to Portuguese Immigrants in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean
  2. Brian Hamm
  3. pp. 113-136
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  1. Part 3
  2. pp. 137-138
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  1. 7. The Early Slave Trade to Spanish America: Caribbean Pathways, 1530–1580
  2. Marc Eagle
  3. pp. 139-162
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  1. 8. Biafadas in Havana: West African Antecedents for Caribbean Social Interactions
  2. David Wheat
  3. pp. 163-186
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  1. Part 4
  2. pp. 187-188
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  1. 9. Environment and the Politics of Relocation in the Caribbean Port of Veracruz, 1519–1599
  2. J. M. H. Clark
  3. pp. 189-210
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  1. 10. Hospitals and Public Health in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean
  2. Pablo F. Gómez
  3. pp. 211-232
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  1. Part 5
  2. pp. 233-234
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  1. 11. The Hispano-German Caribbean: South German Merchants and the Realities of European Consolidation, 1500–1540
  2. Spencer Tyce
  3. pp. 235-256
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  1. 12. The Azorean Connection: Trajectories of Slaving, Piracy, and Trade in the Early Atlantic
  2. Gabriel de Avilez Rocha
  3. pp. 257-278
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 279-282
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 283-286
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 287-301
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