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A short history of the West Indies [by] J.H. Parry and P.M. Sherlock.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Macmillan African and Caribbean histories series | Macmillan African and Caribbean histories seriesPublication details: London, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's, 1971.Edition: 3d edDescription: xiii, 337 pages, 14 plates illustrations, map (on lining papers) 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333074572
  • 9780333074572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 972.9, Par
LOC classification:
  • F1621 .P33 1971
Contents:
Discovery -- The Spanish Indies -- The challenge to Spain -- The settlement of the outer islands -- The sugar revolution -- The buccaneers -- The slave trade and the Asientos -- Commerce and war, 1739-63 -- Reorganization, rebellion and war, 1763-83 -- The sugar islands on the eve of revolution -- Revolution and war -- Abolition and emancipation -- 'The best and worst of times' -- Patterns of colonial government -- The Spanish islands in the nineteenth century -- The British and French West Indies, 1860-1918 -- The United States and the independent islands -- The Caribbean colonies, 1918-60 -- New Caribbean nations and states.
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Books Books OCLC Data Daphne Douglas Reading Room Available 0000000000746

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324).

Discovery -- The Spanish Indies -- The challenge to Spain -- The settlement of the outer islands -- The sugar revolution -- The buccaneers -- The slave trade and the Asientos -- Commerce and war, 1739-63 -- Reorganization, rebellion and war, 1763-83 -- The sugar islands on the eve of revolution -- Revolution and war -- Abolition and emancipation -- 'The best and worst of times' -- Patterns of colonial government -- The Spanish islands in the nineteenth century -- The British and French West Indies, 1860-1918 -- The United States and the independent islands -- The Caribbean colonies, 1918-60 -- New Caribbean nations and states.

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