TY - BOOK AU - Newton, Arthur Percival, TI - The European nations in the West Indies, 1493-1688 T2 - The Pioneer histories AV - F1621 .N46 1967 U1 - 972.9, New PY - 1967///] CY - New York PB - Barnes & Noble KW - Buccaneers KW - fast KW - West Indies KW - History N1 - Reprint of the 1933 ed; Includes index; Introduction -- Beginnings of a new international rivalry, 1493-1500 -- Planting of the first colony, 1500-1513 -- Exodus from the islands to the continent, 1513-1548 -- First attacks upon Spanish monopoly, 1523-1559 -- Beginnings of the African slave trade, 1502-1569 -- Francis Drake and the corsairs, 1569-1573 -- Privateering War, 1573-1590 -- Later years of the Elizabethan War, 1590-1603 -- Peace and after, 1604-1625 -- First settlements in the Lesser Antilles, 1605-1625 -- Deluge from the north, 1625-1637 -- Beginnings of the buccaneers, 1630-1641 -- Height of Dutch commercial ascendancy and the rise of slave-grown sugar, 1640-1660 -- Cromwell and the Western Design, 1649-1660 -- Buccaneers and international policy, 1660-1665 -- Second Dutch War, 1665-1667 -- Heyday of the buccaneers, 1665-1671 -- Indies trade, 1648-1678 -- Preparations for a new war, 1667-1672 -- Third Dutch War, 1672-1678 -- Coming of the Brandenburgers and the Danes, 1673-1683 -- Suppression of the buccaneers, 1672-1688 -- End of an era, 1678-1688 ER -