The English Conquest of Jamaica

Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire

Carla Gardina Pestana

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674737310

Publication Date: 04/24/2017

* Academic Trade

376 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

10 halftones, 4 maps

Belknap Press

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Note on Dates and Spellings
Map: The Caribbean, circa 1660
Introduction
1. Preparation
2. Expectations
3. Hispaniola
4. Failure
5. Jamaica
6. Imagining
7. Surviving
8. Conquering
9. Settling
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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