A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

Klappentext Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the early modern Atlantic world. . . . I cannot think of any scholar better prepared to write an Introduction that places Ligon! his text! and Barbados in an Atlantic historical context. The Introduction is quite thorough! readable! and accurate; the notes [are] exemplary! --Susan Parrish! University of Michigan Zusammenfassung A chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean. It records experimental adoption of the sugar/African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years! to such disastrous effects.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Ligon, Richard/ Kupperman Ligon, Richard Ligon
• Con la collaborazione di: Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Editore)
• Editore: Hackett Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781603846219
• ISBN: 978-1-60384-621-9
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Serie: Hackett Classics
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni