| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounters / William F. Keegan -- 2. Visions of Cannibals: Distant Islands and Distant Lands in Taino World Image / Louis Allaire -- 3. After the Encounter: Disease and Demographics in the Lesser Antilles / Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild C. Ornelas -- 4. The Black Caribs of St. Vincent: A Reevaluation / Michael Craton -- 5. English Settlement in the Lesser Antilles during War and Peace, 1603-1600 / John C. Appleby -- 6. Redcoats and Slaves in the British Caribbean / Andrew O'Shaughnessy -- 7. Crisscrossing Empires: Ships, Sailors, and Resistance in the Lesser Antilles in the Eighteenth Century / Julius S. Scott -- 8. Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and Economic Expansion, 1600-1800 / Stanley L. Engerman -- 9. Opportunity and Mobility in Early Barbados / Alison F. Games -- 10. The British Transatlantic Slave Trade before 1714: Annual Estimates of Volume and Direction / David Eltis -- 11. "Jesus Christ Was Good, but Trade Was Better": An Overview of the Transit Trade of the Dutch Antilles, 1634-1795 / P.C. Emmer -- 12. Citizens of St. Eustatius, 1781: A Historical and Archaeological Study / Norman F. Barka -- 13. Ameliorating Slavery: The Leeward Islands Slave Act of 1798 / David Barry Gaspar -- 14. Free Coloreds and Slaves in Revolutionary Guadeloupe: Politics and Political Consciousness / Anne Perotin-Dumon -- 15. The Slaves and Free Coloreds of Martinique during the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions: Three Moments of Resistance / David Geggus -- 16. Beyond and Below the Merivale Paradigm: Dominica's First 100 Days of Freedom / Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- 17. "Birth-Pangs of a New Order": Special Magistrate John Anderson and the Apprenticeship in St. Vincent / Roderick A. McDonald -- 18. The Long Good-bye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective / Seymour Drescher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of the West Indies -- Antilles, Lesser -- History
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Slavery -- Antilles, Lesser -- History
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HISTORY -- General.
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Indians of the West Indies
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Slavery
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| SUBJECT |
Antilles, Lesser -- History
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| Subject |
Lesser Antilles
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paquette, Robert L., 1951-
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Engerman, Stanley L
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| ISBN |
0813023181 |
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9780813023182 |
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