English Conquest of Jamaica - Oliver Cromwells Bid for Empire

Informationen zum Autor Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 . Klappentext Long before sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britain¿s most valuable colony, its conquest sparked conflicts with European powers and opened vast tropical spaces to English exploitation. Carla Gardina Pestana captures the moment when Cromwell¿s plan to take Spain¿s American empire altered his revolutionary state¿s engagement with the wider world. Zusammenfassung Long before sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britain’s most valuable colony, its conquest sparked conflicts with European powers and opened vast tropical spaces to English exploitation. Carla Gardina Pestana captures the moment when Cromwell’s plan to take Spain’s American empire altered his revolutionary state’s engagement with the wider world.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Gardina Pestana, Pestana Carla Gardina
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674737310
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73731-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, Jamaica, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of other lands