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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean - The Greater Antilles, 1493-1550 (Hardcover)
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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean - The Greater Antilles, 1493-1550 (Hardcover)
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The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that
followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic,
economic, and social change to the region as Europeans, Indigenous
people, and Africans whom Spaniards imported to provide skilled and
unskilled labor came into extended contact for the first time. In
Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean, Ida Altman
examines the interactions of these diverse groups and individuals
and the transformation of the islands of the Greater Antilles
(Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica). She addresses the
impact of disease and ongoing conflict; the Spanish monarchy's
efforts to establish a functioning political system and an Iberian
church; evangelization of Indians and Blacks; the islands' economic
development; the international character of the Caribbean, which
attracted Portuguese, Italian, and German merchants and settlers;
and the formation of a highly unequal and coercive but dynamic
society. As Altman demonstrates, in the first half of the sixteenth
century the Caribbean became the first full-fledged iteration of
the Atlantic world in all its complexity.
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