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The Torrid Zone

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Indigenous and Other Caribbeans

Kalinago Colonizers: Indigenous People and the Settlement of the Lesser Antilles

Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Indian Slavery, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars

Indigeneity and Authority in the Lesser Antilles: The Warners Revisited

Part II Empire, Settlement, and War in the Torrid Zone: The Cases of Suriname, Jamaica, Danish West Indies, and Saint-Domingue

Second Is Best: Dutch Colonization on the “Wild Coast”

Colonial Life in Times of War: The Impact of European Wars on Suriname

Reassessing Jamayca Española: Spanish Fortifications and English Designs in Jamaica

Making Jamaica English: Priorities and Processes

The Danish West Indies, 1660s–1750s: Formative Years

Creating a Caribbean Colony in the Long Seventeenth Century: Saint-Domingue and the Pirates

Part III Extending the Torrid Zone

The Martinican Model: Colonial Magistrates and the Origins of a Global Judicial Elite

Experimenting with Acceptance, Caribbean-Style: Jews as Aliens in the Anglophone Torrid Zone

Carolina, the Torrid Zone, and the Migration of Anglo-American Political Culture

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Bibliography

Contributors

Index