Title Havana and the Atlantic in the sixteenth century / Alejandro de la Fuente ; with the collaboration of César García del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias Delgado.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Envisioning Cuba
	Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject	Havana (Cuba) -- History -- 16th century.
	Havana (Cuba) -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.
Chronological Term	1500-1599
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	García del Pino, César.
	Iglesias Delgado, Bernardo.
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 (DLC) 2007044528 (OCoLC)180574959
ISBN	9780807878064 (electronic book)
	0807878065 (electronic book)
	9781469603544 (electronic book)
	1469603543 (electronic book)
	9780807831922
	0807831921
	0807871877
	9780807871874