Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- 14 Crossroads region: Central Asia
- 15 Crossroads region: Southeast Asia
- 16 The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history
- 17 Crossroads region: the Mediterranean
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
16 - The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history
from Part Four - Crossroads regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- 14 Crossroads region: Central Asia
- 15 Crossroads region: Southeast Asia
- 16 The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history
- 17 Crossroads region: the Mediterranean
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
The Caribbean colonies were, and ought to remain, central-not just to scholars of the Western Hemisphere in the early modern world, but also to world historians who can see in this region a microcosm of encounters and exchange that would be replicated time and time again over the next several centuries. After Columbus's voyages both symbolically and historically opened up the Caribbean area to European exploration and settlement, Spanish settlers crossed the ocean and occupied the Greater Antilles. Violence certainly became part of popular perception of the Caribbean region in many European metropoles. Just as pirates dominate modern popular consciousness about the Caribbean region, the association between sugar and slavery dominates the work of historians. The Caribbean region generally disappears from world history after the plantation economy reaches full speed and the last pirates are eradicated. In seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans fought many wars with each other in the Caribbean, as the colonies were dragged into parent countries' conflicts.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 393 - 414Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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