A history of the Bahamas / by Michael Craton
1969, Second Edition, Second Impression. London : Collins. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446120
Physical description; 320 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. Notes; Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302). Contents; The Lucayans -- Columbus -- Spanish colony -- The coming of the English -- Adventurers, 1640-70 -- Proprietors, 1670-84 -- Buccaneers, 1684-94 -- Pirates, 1695-1717 -- Woodes rogers I, 1717-21 -- Woodes rogers II, 1721-32 -- Eighteenth-century government, 1732-38 -- Thinker and Thomas Shirley, 1738-67 -- American independence, 1767-83 -- Loyalists, 1783-88 -- Lord dunmore, 1788-1815 -- Slavery, 1815-34 -- Emancipation, 1834-40 -- American Civil War, 1840-65 -- Forgotten colony, 1865-1914 -- Twentieth century, 1914-45 -- Present and future, 1945-63. Subjects; Bahamas History. Bahamas. British colonies. History.
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