Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean - Religion, Colonial Competition and the Politics of Profit

Informationen zum Autor KRISTEN BLOCK is an assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. Klappentext Examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century, focusing on the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Kristen Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Zusammenfassung Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, she shows how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was key to survival.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Block
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9780820338682
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3868-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Early American Places; Early American Places
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies