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Indigenous Peoples in the Caribbean
- B.W. Higman, “Indigenous History and Identity in the Caribbean,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, edited by Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), 500-523.
- Corinne Hofman, Angus Mol, Menno Hoogland, and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, “Stage of Encounters: Migration, Mobility and Interaction in the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Caribbean,” World Archaeology 46, no.4 (2014): 590-609.
- Corinne Hofman, Jorge Ulloa Hung, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Joseph Sony Jean, Till Sonnemann, and Menno Hoogland, “Indigenous Caribbean Perspectives: Archaologies and Legacies of the First Colonised Region in the New World,” Antiquity 92 (2018): 200-216.
- Corinne Hofman, Floris Keehnen, “Treating ‘Trifles’: The Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492-1550),” in Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas, edited by Corinne Hofman and Floris Keehnen (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 58-83.
Early Spanish Settlement in the Caribbean
- Kathleen Deagan, Columbus's Outpost Among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
- Kathleen Deagan, Archaeology at La Isabela: America's First European Town (New Havan: Yale University Press, 2002).
- Consuelo Varela, “The Difficult Beginnings: Columbus as a Mediator of New World Products,” in Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824: Circulation, Resistance, and Diversity, edited by Bethany Aram and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 38-52.
Africans in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Environment then, also Resonances Today
- Amitav Ghosh. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021).
- Philip D. Morgan, J.R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
- Nancy Shoemaker, “A Typology of Colonialism,” Perspectives on History, October 2015.
- James A. Whitaker, Chelsey G. Armstrong and Guillaume Odonne (editors). Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas: A Perspective form Historical Ecology (London: Routledge, 2024).
- Robert J. Whittaker. Island Biogeography: Geo-environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and Conservation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
- Malcolm Ferdinand. Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. (Cambridge: Polity, 2022).