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Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba /

This book is the first English-language comprehensive history of early colonial Cuba published in the last 100 years. It is divided into eight chapters that cover a range of topics from the island's geological formation up to 1700: geography, indigenous inhabitants, first encounters between Eur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Geography and the shaping of early colonial Cuba
  • Indigenous inhabitants
  • First encounters, inventing America, and the Columbian Exchange
  • The manufacturing of Cuba: conquests, demographic collapses, and government institutions
  • The emergence of Creole society
  • The Cuban ajiaco: transculturation and transgression
  • The cockpit of Europe
  • Deceivingly sweet: sugar, slavery, and resistance.