Islanders and empire : smuggling and political defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690
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Islanders and empire : smuggling and political defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690
(Cambridge Latin American studies, 121)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Colonial Origins: Hispaniola in the Sixteenth Century
- 2. Smuggling, Sin, and Survival, 1580-1600
- 3. Repressing Smugglers: The Depopulations of Hispaniola, 1604-06
- 4. Tools of Colonial Power: Officeholders, Violence, and Enslaved African Exploitation in Santo Domingo's Cabildo
- 5. 'Prime Mover of All Machinations': Rodrigo Pimentel, Smuggling, and the Artifice of Power
- 6. Neighbors, Rivals, and Partners: Non-Spaniards and the Rise of Saint-Domingue
- Conclusion
- Glossary of Spanish Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
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