Caribbean history in maps by Ashdown, Peter

Table of Contents: “…General -- the Caribbean basin: geographical basis -- The Caribbean: political and linguistic -- Winds and currents in the Atlantic -- The Amerindian people -- The Amerindian civilisations and other neolithic peoples and their homelands -- The Maya civilisation -- The Aztec civilisation -- The Arawak and Carib homelands about 1492 -- A mayan cultural centre: Altun Ha -- European exploration and settlement -- The voyages of Columbus -- The Spanish Conquistadors -- The four Viceroyalties of the Spanish New World Empire -- The viceroyalties of New Spain and New Granada -- New Spain and New Granada: the convoys, the treasure cities and their defence -- Pirates and privateers -- The Dutch in the Caribbean 1570-1678 -- English and French settlement in the seventeenth century -- English and French buccaneers 1667-1690 -- The old representative system in the British West Indies -- Slavery and the plantation society -- The West African Kingdoms -- The West African peoples -- The West African slave coast -- The slave forts of the Gold Coast -- The Atlantic slave trade -- the Black Triangle -- Slaves to the Americas 1451-1600 -- Slaves to the Americas 1601-1700 -- Slaves to the Americas 1701-1810 -- Slaves to the Americas 1811-70 -- The slave trade of the Royal African Company 1673-89 -- A Jamaican sugar estate -- Worthy Park Estate about 1795 -- Slave and Maroon rebellions -- European rivalry and changes of ownership -- English and French naval forces in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century -- Settlements after the eighteenth-century wars -- Revolt and revolution -- Revolution and rebellion in the islands 1790-1804 -- Revolution in Hispaniola 1790-98 -- Revolution in Hispaniola 1799-1804 -- Independence in the Caribbean 1783-1843 -- Emancipation -- Church and mission in the British West Indies 1783-1860 -- Abolition and emancipation -- The decline of sugar -- The decline of sugar in the British West Indies 1783-1860 -- The continuing decline of sugar in the British West Indies 1860-1914 -- Problems 1834-1900 -- Sugar and labour in the British West Indies about 1840 -- Indentured labour to the West Indies 1835-1917 -- The beginnings of institutiionalised education in the British West Indies -- The Morant Bay Rebellion: Jamaica 1865 -- The establishment of Crown Colony Government in the British West Indies -- Early attempts at federation -- The U.S.A. in the Caribbean -- The Cuban revolution and the Spanish-American War -- Columbia, Panama and the U.S.A., 1902-14 -- American imperialism 1895-1940 -- American involvement in the Caribbean 1950-76 -- Castro and Cuba -- Economic distress and the rise of nationalism -- Changes in the economies of the British West Indies 1890-1920 -- Organised labour in the British West Indies -- The disturbances of the 1930s in the British West Indies -- Constitutional changes in the British West Indies 1944-76 -- The major political parties 1930-65 -- Regional co-operation: failure and success -- Federation of the British West Indies 1958-62 -- The Caribbean community -- The West Indies in the 1970s -- Parties and premiers -- The economies of the West Indian states -- Tourism -- The West Indian peoples -- West Indian faiths -- International organisations -- West Indian heroes -- The life and work of Marcus mosiah Garvey 1887-1940 -- Notable West Indians old and new -- Culture in the English-speaking Caribbean -- The history of individual states -- Cuba -- Hispaniola -- Puerto Rico -- Jamaica -- The lesser Antilles -- The Bahamas -- Barbados -- Trinidad -- Belize -- Guyana.…”


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