Havana and the Atlantic in the sixteenth century /

Havana and the Atlantic in the sixteenth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963-
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Envisioning Cuba Envisioning Cuba.
Subject:	Economic history. Havana (Cuba) -- History -- 16th century. Havana (Cuba) -- Economic conditions -- 16th century. Cuba -- Havana. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481067

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Other authors / contributors:	García del Pino, César. Iglesias Delgado, Bernardo.
ISBN:	9780807878064 0807878065 9781469603544 1469603543 9780807831922 0807831921 0807871877 9780807871874
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963- Havana and the Atlantic in the sixteenth century. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 9780807831922

Table of Contents:

The port : shipping and trade
The fleets and the service economy
Urban growth
Production
Slavery and the making of a racial order
The people of the land.