The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |