The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 1
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000559580 |
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 1: Conceptualizing the West Indies The texts in this volume chart the growth of English interest in the West Indies, as seen through the publications of the time. Beginning with the Spanish discovery and colonization there followed reports of Spanish cruelty. Gradually the English started to make incursions into the area and this new era of colonization is reflected in the sources. Later publications document the landscape of the islands, the native inhabitants and the other settlers who began to arrive.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 Vol 1
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 Vol 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-12 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
ISBN | 9781138759343 |
"By the end of the seventeenth century, the English participated energetically in and thought deeply about the West Indies, a drastic change from their minimal involvement and imperfect knowledge of the 1560s. In the mid-sixteenth century the Spanish monopolized the Caribbean Sea, and prohibited all others access to it. Those Englishmen and women who sought to learn about it consulted a limited number of texts that had been produced in other languages; such knowledge was the purview of the elite. That situation changed on both fronts. Direct experience came as English people travelled to the West Indies and began to stake claims on lands there, while broader awareness increased as interested booksellers and writers translated foreign language texts or composed new accounts. These four volumes chart the changing engagement in the West Indies on the part of the English both as adventurers (to use the early modern term for those who 'ventured' their lives or fortunes) and as translators, writers and publishers. The centrality of the region to the growing English commitment to the wider world can be followed in the proliferation of a variety of texts that earned publication over the thirteen decades from the 1570s and the 1690s"--Introduction.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781781447499 |
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 2
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 359 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000559599 |
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 2: Fitting into the Empire This volume documents the political situation in the Caribbean within the context of imperial rivalries. The Spanish tried to repulse all other newcomers, and by the 1660s territorial disputes between the English, the French and the Dutch were commonplace. Eventually, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish territories were established, ushering in a new era of small colonial outposts. Trading networks were built up, with sugar becoming the main export and the source of both wealth and controversy. Documents attest to the strong feelings provoked by the high duty on sugar as well as giving an insight into the day-to-day problems of managing plantations. New territories required new systems of governance. Issues surrounding these were reported and discussed in various publications aimed at an English readership. Printed compilations of colonial laws also gave readers back in England the chance to gain insights into the whole legal framework needed to meet the needs of Caribbean settlements.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 3
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000559602 |
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 3: Living in the Caribbean Once settlements were firmly established articles began to appear promoting the way of life to those back at home. Numerous texts advertised the climate, the crops and the social life, and the recruitment of settlers generated a literature offering land, liberty and other benefits to those who migrated. Recruiting labour on the islands presented a particular problem. A transatlantic trade in servants was developed initially and some groups, including Quakers, and those convicted after the Monmouth Rebellion, were coerced into settling, but in the end the colonists came to rely on slavery. Sources document the growing involvement of English traders in the sale of enslaved Africans as well as the development of laws and the administration of justice on the islands.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 4
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000559610 |
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 4: Making Meaning The flora and fauna of the islands and their economic potential was documented in a number of tracts which also helped to promote the colony as an attractive and bountiful place to settle. Running counter to the promotional literature was a whole sub-genre on natural disasters. Hurricanes and earthquakes were relatively common, and the commentators who wrote about them did so from a variety of motives: to entertain, to shock, to warn or simply to record them. Often portrayed as irreligious, settlers engaged energetically in the religious debates of the time. Dissenters were encouraged or coerced into leaving for the colonies and a number of Quaker publications condemned the transportation of their coreligionists. Though most settlers were members of the Church of England, its textual footprint was quite small and many more dissenting tracts have survived.
The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700: Living in the Caribbean
Title | The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700: Living in the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1600 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
ISBN | 9781848934351 |