History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / Frank Moya Pons.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2007.Description: xiii, 402 p. : map ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781558764149 ((hardcover) : alk. paper)
- 1558764143 ((hardcover) : alk. paper)
- 1558764151 (pbk.)
- 9781558764156
- F2175 .M69 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-346) and index.
The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?