Title: Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion
Description: "Outgrowth of papers presented at conference marking Columbus' quincentennial and centering around new societies formed as a result of culture contact. Essays focus on precolumbian peoples of the Lesser Antilles and their earliest encounters with Europeans; imperial rivalries and wars and their impact on settlement patterns; and local societies, slavery, trade, and abolition. Highly useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Antilles, lesser, Indians of the west indies, Slavery, west indies, Slavery, History, Congresses