NMAIMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
The cemí and the cross : Hispaniola indians and the regular clergy, 1494-1517 / Lauren MacDonald -- The revolt of Agüeybaná II : Puerto Rico's interisland connections / Cacey Farnsworth -- War and rescate : the sixteenth-century circum-Caribbean indigenous slave trade / Erin Stone -- Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa : ambition, fear, and politics in early Cuba / Ida Altman -- Two doñas : aristocratic women and power in colonial Cuba / Shannon Lalor -- Between acceptance and exclusion : Spanish responses to Portuguese immigrants in the sixteenth-century Spanish Caribbean / Brian Hamm -- The early slave trade to Spanish America : Caribbean pathways, 1530-1580 / Marc Eagle -- Biafadas in Havana : West African antecedents for Caribbean social interactions / David Wheat -- Environment and the politics of relocation in the Caribbean port of Veracruz, 1519-1599 / J.M.H. Clark -- Hospitals and public health in the sixteenth-century Spanish Caribbean / Pablo F. Gómez -- The Hispano-German Caribbean : South German merchants and the realities of European consolidation, 1500-1540 / Spencer Tyce -- The Azorean connection : trajectories of slaving, piracy, and trade in the early Atlantic / Gabriel de Avilez Rocha
Summary:
"Brings together recent cutting-edge research on the Spanish Caribbean in the sixteenth century, breaking new ground in defining the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and interconnected region"-- Provided by publisher
