Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Is Caribian?
What i'm going to focus on is not that sort of larger caribbean basin. In some ways, it really only comes together as a social and political unit later. And that happened, you know, comparatively pretty quickly, mainly just over the course of the 16 hundreds. Maybe later i'll about what became of this world in after 17 hundred. But basically, just to work through a few definitions, caribian is, of course, the name of a sea.
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