Loading…

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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 Europeans and Amerindians, otherwise known as the discovery of the New World, the conquest and colonization of Cuba, demographic realities such as race, gender and social structure, and cultural developments such as transculturation, piracy and other forms of aggression, and slavery and sugar production.
Physical Description:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9781683400608