Key to the New World : A History of Early Colonial Cuba /

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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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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:
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Cuba.
Cuba > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Cuba > History > To 1810.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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