{"product_id":"the-torrid-zone-caribbean-colonization-and-cultural-interaction-in-the-long-seventeenth-century-hardcover","title":"The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eL. H. Roper\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comparative treatment of settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrimming with new perspectives and cutting-edge research, the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Torrid Zone \u003c\/i\u003eexplore colonization and cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early 1800s--a period known as the \"long\" seventeenth century--a time when these encounters varied widely and the diverse actors were not yet fully enmeshed in the culture and power dynamics of master-slave relations. The events of this era would profoundly affect the social and political development both of the colonies that Europeans established in the Caribbean and the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first to offer comparative treatments of Danish, Dutch, English, and French trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean and analysis of the corresponding interactions among people of African, European, and Native origin. The contributions range from an investigation of the indigenous colonization of the Lesser Antilles by the Kalinago to a look at how the Anglo-Dutch wars in Europe affected relations between the English inhabitants and the Dutch government of Suriname. Among the other essays are incisive examinations of the often-neglected history of Danish settlement in the Virgin Islands, attempts to establish French colonial authority over the pirates of Saint-Domingue, and how the Caribbean blueprint for colonization manifested itself in South Carolina through enslavement of Amerindians and the establishment of plantation agriculture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extensive geographic, demographic, and thematic concerns of this collection shed a clear light on the socioeconomic character of the \"Torrid Zone\" before and during the emergence and extension of the sugar-and-slaves complex that came to define this region. The book is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the social, political, and economic sensibilities to which the operators around the Caribbean subscribed as well as to our understanding of what they did, offering in turn a better comprehension of the consequences of their behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eL. H. Roper\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz and coeditor in chief of the\u003ci\u003e Journal of Early American History\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent publications are \u003ci\u003eAdvancing Empire: English Interest and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume for which he is a coeditor. Roper was a 2015 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799692607776,"sku":"9781611178906","price":94.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eef45367315a425c680dba99ff7026a7.webp?v=1780820132","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-torrid-zone-caribbean-colonization-and-cultural-interaction-in-the-long-seventeenth-century-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}