Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba / Luis Martínez-Fernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuba--History--To 1810.

Cuba.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book is the first English-language comprehensive history of early colonial Cuba published in the last 100 years. It is divided into eight chapters that cover a range of topics from the island's geological formation up to 1700: geography, indigenous inhabitants, first encounters between Europeans and Amerindians, otherwise known as the discovery of the New World, the conquest and colonization of Cuba, demographic realities such as race, gender and social structure, and cultural developments such as transculturation, piracy and other forms of aggression, and slavery and sugar production.

Contents:

Geography and the shaping of early colonial Cuba

Indigenous inhabitants

First encounters, inventing America, and the Columbian Exchange

The manufacturing of Cuba: conquests, demographic collapses, and government institutions

The emergence of Creole society

The Cuban ajiaco: transculturation and transgression

The cockpit of Europe

Deceivingly sweet: sugar, slavery, and resistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes brief biographical note about the author.

ISBN:

9781683400325

1683400321

OCLC:

982651330