Research Catalog

Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba

Title
Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba / Luis Martínez-Fernández.
Author
Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960-
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2018]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library JFE 18-4542Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
xiv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes brief biographical note about the author.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 18-4542
ISBN
  • 9781683400325
  • 1683400321
LCCN
2017040578
OCLC
982651330
Author
Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960- author.
Title
Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba / Luis Martínez-Fernández.
Publisher
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
To 1810
Research Call Number
JFE 18-4542
View in Legacy Catalog