Breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.
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.
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