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Informationen zum Autor Ida Altman is a professor emerita of history at the University of Florida. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century and The War for Mexico’s West: Spaniards and Indians in New Galicia, 1524–1550. David Wheat is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640. Klappentext Ida Altman is a professor emerita of history at the University of Florida. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of several¿books, including Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century and The War for Mexico’s West: Spaniards and Indians in New Galicia, 1524–1550. David Wheat is an associate¿professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640. ¿ Zusammenfassung Breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Ida Altman and David Wheat Part 1. Indians in the Early Spanish Caribbean 1. The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494–1517 Lauren MacDonald 2. The Revolt of Agüeybaná II: Puerto Rico’s Interisland Connections Cacey Farnsworth 3. War and Rescate: The Sixteenth-Century Circum-Caribbean Indigenous Slave Trade Erin Stone Part 2. Europeans in the Islands 4. Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa: Ambition, Fear, and Politics in Early Cuba Ida Altman 5. Two Doñas: Aristocratic Women and Power in Colonial Cuba Shannon Lalor 6. Between Acceptance and Exclusion: Spanish Responses to Portuguese Immigrants in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean Brian Hamm Part 3. Africans and the Spanish Caribbean 7. The Early Slave Trade to Spanish America: Caribbean Pathways, 1530–1580 Marc Eagle 8. Biafadas in Havana: West African Antecedents for Caribbean Social Interactions David Wheat Part 4. Environment and Health 9. Environment and the Politics of Relocation in the Caribbean Port of Veracruz, 1519–1599 J. M. H. Clark 10. Hospitals and Public Health in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean Pablo F. Gómez Part 5. International Commercial Networks 11. The Hispano-German Caribbean: South German Merchants and the Realities of European Consolidation, 1500–1540 Spencer Tyce 12. The Azorean Connection: Trajectories of Slaving, Piracy, and Trade in the Early Atlantic Gabriel de Avilez Rocha Glossary Contributors Index...
