Table of Contents

• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• 
  Introduction, by Ida Altman and David Wheat
• 
  I. Indians in the Early Spanish Caribbean
• 1. "The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494-1517," by Lauren MacDonald
• 2. "The Revolt of Agüeybana II: Puerto Rico's Inter-Island Connections," by Cacey Farnsworth
• 3. "War and Rescate: The Sixteenth-Century Circum-Caribbean Indigenous Slave Trade," by Erin Stone
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  II. Europeans in the Islands
• 4. "Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa: Ambition, Fear and Politics in Early Cuba," by Ida Altman
• 5. "Two Doñas: Aristocratic Women and Power in Colonial Cuba," by Shannon Lalor
• 6. "Between Acceptance and Exclusion: Spanish Responses to Portuguese Immigrants in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean," by Brian Hamm
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  III. Africans and the Spanish Caribbean
• 7. "The Early Slave Trade to Spanish America: Caribbean Pathways, 1530-1580," by Marc Eagle
• 8. "Biafadas in Havana: West African Antecedents for Caribbean Social Interactions," by David Wheat
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  IV. Environment and Health
• 9. "Environment and the Politics of Relocation in the Caribbean Port of Veracruz, 1519-1599," by J. M. H. Clark
• 10. "Hospitals and Public Health in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean," by Pablo F. Gómez
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  V. International Commercial Networks
• 11. "The Hispano-German Caribbean: South German Merchants and the Realities of European Consolidation, 1500-1540," by Spencer Tyce
• 12. "The Azorean Connection: Trajectories of Slaving, Piracy, and Trade in the Early Atlantic," by Gabriel de Avilez Rocha
• Glossary
• List of Contributors

About the Author

Ida Altman is a professor emerita of history at the University of Florida. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century and The War for Mexico’s West: Spaniards and Indians in New Galicia, 1524–1550. David Wheat is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640.
 

Reviews

“The editors have assembled a uniformly strong collection of essays. This is essential reading for those interested in Iberian America, the West Indies, and the Atlantic world. Bravo to Altman and Wheat!”—Carla G. Pestana, professor of history and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles

“This extremely interesting collection of highly original, engagingly written essays demonstrates persuasively the enormous richness and tantalizing complexity of the initial century of contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans in the Caribbean. This work provides a wonderful window on the early Americas.”—Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University

“This excellent volume brings together the work of veteran historians with that of a new generation of scholars in a series of detailed and innovative studies.”—Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University