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The Torrid Zone - Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Torrid Zone - Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
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The first comparative treatment of settlers' trading, pirating, and
colonizing activities in the Caribbean Brimming with new
perspectives and cuttingedge research, the essays collected in The
Torrid Zone explore colonization and cultural interaction in the
Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early 1800s-a period known as
the "long" seventeenth century-a time when these encounters varied
widely and the diverse actors were not yet fully enmeshed in the
culture and power dynamics of master-slave relations. The events of
this era would profoundly affect the social and political
development of both the colonies that Europeans established in the
Caribbean and the wider world. This book is the first to offer
comparative treatments of Danish, Dutch, English, and French
trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean and
analysis of the corresponding interactions among people of African,
European, and Native origin. The contributions range from an
investigation of the indigenous colonization of the Lesser Antilles
by the Kalinago to a look at how the Anglo-Dutch wars in Europe
affected relations between the English inhabitants and the Dutch
government of Suriname. Among the other essays are incisive
examinations of the often-neglected history of Danish settlement in
the Virgin Islands, attempts to establish French colonial authority
over the pirates of Saint-Domingue, and how the Caribbean blueprint
for colonization manifested itself in South Carolina through
enslavement of Amerindians and the establishment of plantation
agriculture. The extensive geographic, demographic, and thematic
concerns of this collection shed a clear light on the socioeconomic
character of the "Torrid Zone" before and during the emergence and
extension of the sugar-and-slaves complex that came to define this
region. The book is an invaluable contribution to our understanding
of the social, political, and economic sensibilities to which the
operators around the Caribbean subscribed as well as to our
understanding of their actions, offering in turn a better
comprehension of the consequences of their behavior.
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