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Maritime Connections in a Plantation Economy
2011
Overview
The crucial role of shipping in maritime economies cannot be overstated, particularly in the case of island nations like Jamaica. If the birth of the modern era began, as many scholars maintain, with the maritime expansion of Europe into other world areas, then maritime economic connections clearly present a critical element of study (Braudel 1984). Jamaica serves as an appropriate venue for such a maritime study for several reasons. The island became known to Europeans during Christopher Columbus’s second and fourth voyages and thus played a role in the first and most dramatic example of Europeans expanding the “geographic size
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN
0817317260, 9780817317263
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