Caribbean colonization and cultural interaction in the long seventeenth century /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by L.H. Roper.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Columbia, South Carolina :
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University of South Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
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1805
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource.
SERIES
Series Title
The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Kalinago colonizers : indigenous people and the settlement of the Lesser Antilles / Tessa Murphy -- Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Indian slavery, and the Anglo-Dutch wars / Carolyn Arena -- Indigeneity and authority in the Lesser Antilles : the Warners revisited / Sarah Barber -- Second is best : Dutch colonization on the "wild coast" / Jessica Vance Roitman -- Colonial life in times of war : the impact of European wars on Suriname / Suze Zijlstra and Tom Weterings -- Reassessing Jamayca Española : Spanish fortifications and English designs in Jamaica / Amanda J. Snyder -- Making Jamaica English : priorities and processes / James Robertson -- The Danish West Indies, 1660s-1750s : formative years / Erik Gøbel -- Creating a Caribbean colony in the long seventeenth century : Saint-Domingue and the pirates / Giovanni Venegoni -- The Martinican model : colonial magistrates and the origins of a global judicial elite / Laurie M. Wood -- Experimenting with acceptance, Caribbean-style : Jews as aliens in the anglophone torrid zone / Barry L. Stiefel -- Carolina, the torrid zone, and the migration of Anglo-American political culture / L.H. Roper.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Brimming with new perspectives and cutting-edge research, the essays collected in The Torrid Zone explore colonization and cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early 1800s--a period known as the "long" seventeenth century--a time when these encounters varied widely and the diverse actors were not yet fully enmeshed in the culture and power dynamics of master-slave relations. The events of this era would profoundly affect the social and political development of both the colonies that Europeans established in the Caribbean and the wider world"--