Caribbeana
Subtitle: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780226453903
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Cultural studies; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Caribbean Literature In English; History - General History; English; Literature: Classics; Caribbean islands; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Caribbean & Latin American; Caribbean Area; Caribbean literature (English); Literary Collections; West Indian literature (Englis; West Indian literature (English); West Indies
First sentence: Richard Ligon's A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657; second edition, 1673) provides perhaps the best description of any West Indian colony in the seventeenth century.