The European Nations in the West Indies, 1493-1688

Newton, Arthur Percival, The European Nations in the West Indies, 1493-1688, London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd 1933.

Reviewed in The English Historical Review © 1935.

Contents:

Introduction.

1. The Beginnings of a New International Rivalry, 1493 - 1500.

2. The Planting of the First Colony, 1500 – 1513.

3. The Exodus from the Islands to the Continent, 1513 – 1548.

4. The First Attacks upon Spanish Monopoly, 1523 – 1559.

5. The Beginnings of the African Slave Trade, 1502 – 1569.

6. Francis Drake and the Corsairs, 1569 – 1573.

7. The Privateering War, 1573 – 1590.

8. The Later Years of the Elizabethan War, 1590 – 1603.

9. The Peace and After, 1604 - 1625.

10. The First Settlements in the Lesser Antilles, 1605 - 1625.

11. The Deluge from the North, 1625 – 1637.

12. The Beginnings of the Buccaneers, 1630 – 1641.

13. The Height of Dutch Commercial Ascendancy and the Rise of Slave – Grown Sugar, 1640 – 1660.

14. Cromwell and the Western Design, 1649 - 1660.

15. The Buccaneers and International Policy, 1660 – 1665.

16. The Second Dutch War, 1665 – 1667.

17. The Heyday of the Buccaneers, 1665 – 1671.

18. The Indies Trade, 1648 – 1678.

19. Preparations for a New War, 1667 – 1672.

20. The Third Dutch War, 1672 – 1678.

21.The Coming of the Brandenburgers and the Danes, 1673 – 1683.

22. The Suppression of the Buccaneers, 1672 – 1688.

23. The End of an Era, 1678 – 1688.