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Nov 1, 1996 · It concludes with a three-chapter narrative economic history of the British West Indies on the themes of “Booms and Slumps in War and Peace, 1623-1713,” “The Drive to Monoculture, 1714-1755,” and “The Sugar Colonies and the Industrial Revolution, 1756-1775.”
1. Of the three kinds of mixtures that will be dealt with in this history 2. Of the abundance of metals that exist in the Indies 3. Of the kind of land where metals are found, and how in the Indies all the metals are not worked, and how the Indians used metals 4. Of the gold that is produced in the Indies 5.
Download. XML. The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the firs...
The West Indies Federation was a short-lived federation that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. It consisted of several Caribbean colonies of the United Kingdom. The Federation's purpose was to create a political unit that would become independent from Britain as a single state, similar to the Federation of Australia or Canadian ...
4 days ago · Search for: 'West Indies' in Oxford Reference ». The islands of the Caribbean. Columbus, who in 1492 was the first European to reach the islands, called them the West Indies because he believed he had arrived near India by travelling westward. The islands were opened up by the Spanish in the 16th century and thereafter were the theatre of ...
They compared the West Indies floristic diversity to other archipelagos of the world and provided estimates of diversity and endemism for the Caribbean as a whole and for the individual islands. In spite of the recent progress in understanding the origins and composition of the West Indian flora, much work lies ahead.
Signature. Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ( US: / lɑːs ˈkɑːsəs / lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ⓘ; 11 November 1484 [1] – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar.
