The port : shipping and trade -- The fleets and the service economy -- Urban growth -- Production -- Slavery and the making of a racial order -- The people of t

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the u

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most popul

"Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. This book tells the

This book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, a