General History of the Caribbean - Unesco - Autochthonous Societies

Informationen zum Autor Jalil Sued-Badillo isProfessor and Chairperson of the General Social Sciences Department (Interdisciplinary Studies) at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Klappentext Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people! and analyses their various political! social! cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands! and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest! the hierarchy of the chiefdoms! and the development of slavery. Zusammenfassung Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.

Product details

• Authors: Manual Moreno Fraginals, Manual Moreno Sued-Badillo Fraginals, J Sued-Badillo, J. Sued-Badillo
• Assisted by: Jalil Sued-Badillo (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781403975898
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7589-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: General History of the Caribbe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Culture, Cultural Studies, Social History, Social and cultural history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Education Collection, Caribbean;history;history of literature;society