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The West Indies and the Spanish Main

Title
The West Indies and the Spanish Main / by James Rodway.
Author
Rodway, James, 1848-1926
Publication
  • London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, MDCCCXCVI [1896]
  • ©1896.

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Additional Authors
  • Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher), 1848-1935
  • G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
Description
xxiv, 371, [1] pages : illustrations, maps; 20 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Series Statement
The story of the nations
Uniform Title
Story of the nations.
Subjects
Note
  • With a half-title; series title at head of half-title page, with series advertisements on verso.
  • "Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1896 (for Great Britain). Copyright by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 (for the United States of America)."--verso of title page.
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
1. The Spaniards and their victims -- 2. The quest for "El Dorado" -- 3. "Singeing the Spaniard's beard" -- 4. Ralegh and the first British colonies -- 5. Buccaneers, filibusters, and pirates -- 6. War in the young colonies -- 7. The planters and their slaves -- 8. The struggle for supremacy -- 9. The struggle for the Darien trade -- 10. Slave insurrections and Bush Negroes -- 11. The sovereignty of the seas -- 12. Downfall of Hispaniola -- 13. Emancipation of the Spanish Main -- 14. Abolition of slavery -- 15. Results of emancipation -- 16. The Isthmus transit schemes.
Call Number
Sc 972.9-R (Rodway, J. West Indies and the Spanish Main)
LCCN
02008504
OCLC
  • 2942645
  • NYPGR2942645-B
Author
Rodway, James, 1848-1926, author.
Title
The West Indies and the Spanish Main / by James Rodway.
Publisher
London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, MDCCCXCVI [1896]
Copyright Date
©1896.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The story of the nations
Story of the nations.
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 8957
Provenance
Copy in Sc 972.9-R (accession no. B389116) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher), 1848-1935, publisher.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc 972.9-R (Rodway, J. West Indies and the Spanish Main)
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