The Caribbean Before Columbus
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The Caribbean Before Columbus
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Author : William F. Keegan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Caribbean Before Columbus written by William F. Keegan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans - the paleo-Indians - in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. -- from back cover.
The Caribbean Before Columbus
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Author : William F. Keegan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01
The Caribbean Before Columbus written by William F. Keegan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01 with Archaeology categories.
Empire S Crossroads
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Author : Carrie Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Empire S Crossroads written by Carrie Gibson and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with History categories.
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer). Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a panoramic view of the region from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. These fraught years gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, as well as the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion—European and American—but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Told “in fluid, colorful prose peppered with telling anecdotes,” Empire’s Crossroads provides an essential account of five centuries of history (Foreign Affairs). “Judicious, readable and extremely well-informed . . . Too many people know the Caribbean only as a tourist destination; [Gibson] takes us, instead, into its fascinating, complex and often tragic past. No vacation there will ever feel quite the same again.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost
From Columbus To Castro
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Author : Eric Williams
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1984-04-12
From Columbus To Castro written by Eric Williams and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-12 with History categories.
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.
The Arawak
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Author : World Changing History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-27
The Arawak written by World Changing History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-27 with categories.
Are you interested in Caribbean history? More specifically, in the Arawakan people? One of the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean, the Arawakans are a fascinating study in how culture and social order can be disrupted and wiped out by one historical event - the colonizers' arrival. This account explores the Arawakan people and their culture in detail, together with an exploration of the events surrounding Christopher Columbus's arrival and what followed - the Arawakans were forced to change their social institutions and forget Explore their culture and social institutions Discover who the Arawakan people were Learn where they came from Read in detail about the arrival of Christopher Columbus Learn about the devastating effect Columbus' arrival had on the Arawak See the differences between the Arawak and the Carib Investigate the Taino Rebellion Investigate how the Arawak genocide came about And so much more! If Caribbean history is important to you or if you are a history enthusiast in general and want to learn more about these interesting people and their cultures, then this book is for you. Click on the buy now button to get your copy of this book today and immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of the Arawak Free Bonus Inside!
A Historical Geography Of Christopher Columbus S First Voyage And His Interactions With Indigenous Peoples Of The Caribbean
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Author : Al M. Rocca
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-05-02
A Historical Geography Of Christopher Columbus S First Voyage And His Interactions With Indigenous Peoples Of The Caribbean written by Al M. Rocca and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day-by-day account of the explorer’s travels and activities, richly illustrated with thematic maps. This work expands our understanding of Columbus’s first voyage by mapping his sea and land experiences, offering both a historical and geographical exploration of his first voyage. Traveling chronologically through events, the reader builds a spatial insight into Columbus’s perspectives that confused and confirmed his pre-existing notions of Asia and the Indies, driving him onward in search of new geographic evidence. Drawing from a diverse range of primary and secondary historical resources, this book is beautifully adorned with illustrations that facilitate an in-depth exploration of the connections between the places Columbus encountered and his subsequent social interactions with Indigenous people. This methodology allows the reader to better understand Columbus’s actions as he analyzes new geographic realities with pre-existing notions of the “Indies.” Attention is given to Columbian primary sources which analyze how those materials have been used to create a narrative by historians. Readers will learn about the social and political structures of the Lucayan, Taíno, and Carib peoples, achieving a deeper understanding of those pre-Columbian cultures at the time of contact. The book will appeal to students and researchers in the disciplines of history, geography, and anthropology, and the general reader interested in Colombus.
Christopher Columbus
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Author : Emma Carlson Berne
language : en
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-08
Christopher Columbus written by Emma Carlson Berne and has been published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Christopher Columbus and his crew had been sailing for five weeks into uncharted waters before finally reaching land one blazing hot day in 1492. It was a difficult journey that many predicted would be impossible, but Columbus proved them wrong and his voyage changed the world. Columbus had done it: he was the first man to reach the East by sailing west, and he was heralded as the Father of the New World. Columbus would take three more voyages to different places, but he remains best known as the pioneer who opened routes to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. Book jacket.
The Natural Moral And Political History Of Jamaica And The Territories Thereon Depending
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Author : James Knight
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-05-19
The Natural Moral And Political History Of Jamaica And The Territories Thereon Depending written by James Knight and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with History categories.
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.
Christopher Columbus And The Discovery Of The Americas Explorers Of New Lands
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Author : Tim McNeese
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Christopher Columbus And The Discovery Of The Americas Explorers Of New Lands written by Tim McNeese and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with America categories.
Columbus left Spain in 1492 thinking that he could reach China by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. When he reached land after five weeks, he thought he had discovered a new route to the East Indies. It was not until much later that people realized
Christopher Columbus And The Enterprise Of The Indies
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Author : Geoffrey Symcox
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-02-02
Christopher Columbus And The Enterprise Of The Indies written by Geoffrey Symcox and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-02 with History categories.
In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today. Columbus's four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the Americas in a conflicted economic and cultural symbiosis. These carefully selected documents describe the voyages and their immediate impact on Europe and the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Symcox and Sullivan's engaging introduction presents Columbus as neither hero nor villain, but as a significant historical actor who improvised responses to a changed world. Document headnotes provide context for understanding Columbus's voyages within the broader context of fifteenth-century Europe and the policies of the Spanish crown. Maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography invite students to analyze and interpret the documents.