Islanders and Empire : Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690 Paperback / softback
by Juan Jose (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Ponce Vazquez
Part of the Cambridge Latin American Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.
With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach of imperial bureaucracies and institutions for their own benefit.
By co-opting the governing and judicial powers of local and imperial institutions on the island, residents could take advantage of, and even dominate, the contraband trade that reached the island's shores.
In doing so, they altered the course of the European inter-imperial struggles in the Caribbean by limiting, redirecting, or suppressing the Spanish crown's policies, thus taking control of their destinies and that of their neighbors in Hispaniola, other Spanish Caribbean territories, and the Spanish empire in the region.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
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- ISBN:9781108702485
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108702485
