Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Caribbean & West Indian, Nonfiction, History, Americas, Latin America
Cover of the book Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century by Alejandro de la Fuente, The University of North Carolina Press
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Author: Alejandro de la Fuente ISBN: 9780807878064
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: February 1, 2011
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Alejandro de la Fuente
ISBN: 9780807878064
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: February 1, 2011
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.

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Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.

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