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From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the
1930s, plantations brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners
and led to bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control
of the lucrative sugar market.In this comprehensive volume, Moya
Pons explores the history, context, and consequences of the major
changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing
and the Great Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial
ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in
the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave
revolts and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners
not as a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive
interruption of their profit flow. ""History of the Caribbean""
traces the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources
transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth
and then into some of the poorest.This book intertwines the
socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a
captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and
provide new insights for specialists.
Academic paperback edition, which includes an extensive
bibliographical essay. From the arrival of the first Europeans in
the region until the 1930s, plantations-building their fortunes on
sugar and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee,
and bananas-brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners,
effected a fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the
Caribbean and the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first
indigenous populations and then imported Africans, and led to
bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control of the
lucrative sugar market. In this comprehensive volume, Moya Pons
explores the history, context, and consequences of the major
changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing
and the Great Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial
ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in
the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave
revolts and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners
not as a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive
interruption to their profit flow. History of the Caribbean traces
the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources
transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth
and then into some of the poorest. This book intertwines the
socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a
captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and
provide new insights for specialists.
While the Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and
traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of the Dominican
culture, a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic
Jews from the Dutch Caribbean and Lebanon added further variety.
Traditional histories of the island have long overlooked the
influence of black Africans on the national heritage, although this
rich cultural legacy is evident in many areas. And while there has
been ample discussion of the indigenous Taino people, very few of
them survived over the centuries, and they left a lesser lasting
imprint, limited to agriculture, diet, language, and religion.This
distinctive cultural amalgam provides the backdrop for this book,
which has become a classic text in the Dominican Republic. It is
the first book to acknowledge creolization as the dominant feature
of Dominican culture. The contributors are Dominican scholars and
journalists, and they have also served as diplomats, university
professors, museum directors, and artists.
This updated and expanded edition extends the narrative from 1990
to the first decade of the present century, beginning with the
collapse of the Dominican economy. In addition to the electoral
fraud and constitutional reforms of 1994 and the return
administration of Leonel Fernandez, the updated chapters focus on
financial crises, the economic reforms of the 1990s, the free trade
agreement with the United States, and party politics. They also
take account of the recent Dominican electoral processes, the
colossal and fraudulent banking crisis of 2002-2004, and the
perpetuation of corruption as part of Dominican political culture.
From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the
1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a
lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas --
brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a
fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and
the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigenous
populations and then imported Africans, and led to bloody wars on
both sides of the Atlantic over control of the lucrative sugar
market. In this comprehensive volume, Frank Moya Pons explores the
history, context, and consequences of the major changes that marked
the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great
Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial ventures and
institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in the 16th
century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave revolts
and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners not as
a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive
interruption to their profit flow. History of the Caribbean traces
the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources
transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth
and then into some of the poorest. This book intertwines the
socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a
captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and
provide new insights for specialists.
While the Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and
traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of the Dominican
culture, a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic
Jews from the Dutch Caribbean and Lebanon added further variety.
Traditional histories of the island have long overlooked the
influence of black Africans on the national heritage, although this
rich cultural legacy is evident in many areas. And while there has
been ample discussion of the indigenous Taino people, very few of
them survived over the centuries, and they left a lesser lasting
imprint, limited to agriculture, diet, language, and religion.This
distinctive cultural amalgam provides the backdrop for this book,
which has become a classic text in the Dominican Republic. It is
the first book to acknowledge creolization as the dominant feature
of Dominican culture. The contributors are Dominican scholars and
journalists, and they have also served as diplomats, university
professors, museum directors, and artists.
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