Dordrecht, Holland: Providence, U.S.A. Foris Publications 1988 Trade paperback Good. cover wear, spine is cocked, some underlining & yellow highlighting. 250 pp., diagrams, bibliography, index. 250 pp., diagrams, bibliography, index. cover wear, spine is cocked, some underlining & yellow highlighting. The Caribs were one of the most powerful and widely dispersed groups in the Caribbean and South America. The central theme of this study is the transition of Carib society from the time of their first contacts with Europeans in 1498, until the turn of the eighteenth century, the point at which they may be said to have effectively lost their independence to the emergent states of Venezuela and Guyana. Unlike the Aztecs and the Incas, the Caribs posed a consistent challenge to Spanish, Dutch, French and English imperial designs for almost three hundred years. Eventually, however, they too were overcome by the colonial intruders, due not least to the accelerating effects of the Old World diseases that the soldiers, priests and settlers had brought with them. On the basis of extensive archival research in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as the use of modern ethnographic data, Whitehead explores the above-mentioned process in great detail. Not confined to the historical developments in Carib society, his analysis also deals with the social, cultural and demographic changes attendant upon the conquest of the Carib homeland. This approach allows the author to p ...

ISBN10: 9067652407, ISBN13: 9789067652407, [publisher: Foris Pubns USA] Softcover 250 pp., diagrams, bibliography, index. cover wear, spine is cocked, some underlining & yellow highlighting. The Caribs were one of the most powerful and widely dispersed groups in the Caribbean and South America. The central theme of this study is the transition of Carib society from the time of their first contacts with Europeans in 1498, until the turn of the eighteenth century, the point at which they may be said to have effectively lost their independence to the emergent states of Venezuela and Guyana. Unlike the Aztecs and the Incas, the Caribs posed a consistent challenge to Spanish, Dutch, French and English imperial designs for almost three hundred years. Eventually, however, they too were overcome by the colonial intruders, due not least to the accelerating effects of the Old World diseases that the soldiers, priests and settlers had brought with them. On the basis of extensive archival research in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as the use of modern ethnographic data, Whitehead explores the above-mentioned process in great detail. Not confined to the historical developments in Carib society, his analysis also deals with the social, cultural and demographic changes attendant upon the conquest of the Carib homeland. This approach allows the author to present a vivid overall picture of a society whose image has been largely determined by war, slavery an ...
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