The Early Spanish Main

Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.

Sauer (Author)

9780521088480, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

320 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg

What happened from 1942 to 1519, when Columbus and the Spaniards were staking out an American Empire? Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources and his authoritative knowledge of land forms, vegetation and ethnography in Latin America to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context. This account of the voyages of discovery, of the early years of Spanish administration, and how the Spaniards dealt with the crises of their colonial policies, is a definitive work of historical geography as well as an exciting readable book.

List of illustrations
Abbreviations
1. introduction
2. The discovery
3. Aboriginal condition of the islands
4. Española under Columbus
5. Change of government license to discover (1499–1502)
6. Veragua, last venture of Columbus (1502–1504)
7. Organization of the Indies (1502–1509)
8. Attempts to occupy Tierra Firme (1504–1509)
9. Expansion from Española (1509–1519)
10. Island crisis and its effects (1509–1519)
11. Entry to Darién and the South Sea (1511–1514)
12. Cuevan country and people
13. Castilla del Oro (1514–1519)
14. Indian langs of farther Castilla del Oro
15. Establishment on the South Sea
16. Native decline and ecologic change in Castilla del Oro
17. The end of the era
Index.

Subject Areas: History [HB]