The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585
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The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585
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Author : Paul E. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585 written by Paul E. Hoffman and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with History categories.
Because of the legendary exploits of Sir Francis Drake, most people have heard of the sixteenth-century conflicts between the English and the Spanish in the New World. Paul Hoffman looks behind the legend to discover the reality of what the Spanish crown was doing to defend its empire against raiders such as Drake. Using quantitative as well as literary data on the costs, types, and locations of defenses and on the locations and types of corsair incidents, Hoffman documents the evolution of s system of defenses that he believes was adequate for confronting the violence of the French and English in the years before 1586. He suggests that the size of Drake’s expedition of 1586 was a response to this system and in turn caused the Spanish to abandon the system in favor of one that concentrated on the defense of the major towns and trade routes. Besides telling the complex story of how the Spanish built forts, installed garrisons and artillery, and patrolled the Caribbean, Hoffman discusses the ways in which the political system of the empire shaped decisions on defenses. Contrary to what many have believed, Hoffman concludes, Spain exhibited neither military failure nor timidity in its defense of hits interest in the New World. Sharing the results of his meticulous research about the Spanish Caribbean, Paul Hoffman examines an important period that legend has obscured.
The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585
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Author : Paul E. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585 written by Paul E. Hoffman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585
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Author : Paul E. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
Release Date : 1980
The Spanish Crown And The Defense Of The Caribbean 1535 1585 written by Paul E. Hoffman and has been published by Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Caribbean Area categories.
Buccaneers Of The Caribbean
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Author : Jon Latimer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06
Buccaneers Of The Caribbean written by Jon Latimer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with History categories.
During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. Lacking effective naval power, the English, French, and Dutch developed privateering as the means of protecting their young New World colonies. They developed a form of semi-legal private warfare, often carried out regardless of political developments on the other side of the Atlantic, but usually with tacit approval from London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of such figures as William Dampier, Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, Alexander Oliver Exquemelin, and Basil Ringrose, Jon Latimer portrays a world of madcap adventurers, daredevil seafarers, and dangerous rogues. Piet Hein of the Dutch West India Company captured, off the coast of Cuba, the Spanish treasure fleet, laden with American silver, and funded the Dutch for eight months in their fight against Spain. The switch from tobacco to sugar transformed the Caribbean, and everyone scrambled for a quick profit in the slave trade. Oliver Cromwell’s ludicrous Western Design—a grand scheme to conquer Central America—fizzled spectacularly, while the surprising prosperity of Jamaica set England solidly on the road to empire. The infamous Henry Morgan conducted a dramatic raid through the tropical jungle of Panama that ended in the burning of Panama City. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.
The Seaforth Bibliography
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Author : Eugene Rasor
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2009-04-17
The Seaforth Bibliography written by Eugene Rasor and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-17 with History categories.
This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
English British Naval History To 1815
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Author : Eugene L. Rasor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-10-30
English British Naval History To 1815 written by Eugene L. Rasor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-30 with History categories.
The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship.
Islanders And Empire
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Author : Juan José Ponce Vázquez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Islanders And Empire written by Juan José Ponce Vázquez and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.
The Early English Caribbean 1570 1700 Vol 1
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Author : Carla Gardina Pestana
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-16
The Early English Caribbean 1570 1700 Vol 1 written by Carla Gardina Pestana and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with History categories.
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 1: Conceptualizing the West Indies The texts in this volume chart the growth of English interest in the West Indies, as seen through the publications of the time. Beginning with the Spanish discovery and colonization there followed reports of Spanish cruelty. Gradually the English started to make incursions into the area and this new era of colonization is reflected in the sources. Later publications document the landscape of the islands, the native inhabitants and the other settlers who began to arrive.
First Forts
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Author : Eric Klingelhofer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-11-11
First Forts written by Eric Klingelhofer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with History categories.
The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts comprises essays written by leading archaeologists that address the questions of how European first defended themselves overseas and to what degree they adapted to local conditions.
Saints And Their Cults In The Atlantic World
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Author : Margaret Jean Cormack
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007
Saints And Their Cults In The Atlantic World written by Margaret Jean Cormack and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Central America categories.
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Scholars representing the fields of history, art history, religious studies, and communications contribute their perspectives in this interdisciplinary collection, also notable as the first English language study of many of the saints treated in the volume. Several chapters chart the changing images and meanings of holy people as their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New; others describe sites and devotions that developed in the Americas. The ways that a group feels connected to the holy figure by ethnicity or regionalism proves to be a critical factor in a saint's reception, and many contributors discuss the tensions that develop between ecclesiastical authorities and communities of devotees.