General History of the Caribbean--UNESCO, Vol. 1 Autochthonous Societies

Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.

Jalil Sued-Badillo is Professor and Chairperson of the General Social Sciences Department (Interdisciplinary Studies) at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Preface--Federico Mayor * Description of the Project--Roy Augier * Introduction--Jalil Sued Badillo * Ethnohistorical Research in the Hispanic Caribbean--Jalil Sued-Badillo * The Physical Environment: Biogeographical Teleconnections in Caribbean Prehistory--Francisco Watlington * The First Caribbean People: Part I: The Palaeindians in Cuba and the Circum-Caribbean--José M. Guarch-Delmonte * The First Caribbean People: Part II: The Archaics--A. Gus Pantel * Agricultural Societies in the Continental Caribbean--Arie Boomert * Agricutural Societies in the Caribbean: The Lesser Antilles--Louis Allaire * Agricultural Societies in the Caribbean: The Greater Antilles and the Bahamas--Luis A. Chanlatte Baik * The Indigenous Societies at the Time of Conquest--Jalil Sued-Badillo * Chiefdoms in the Islands and Mainland: A Comparison--Franciso Moscoso * Freedom and Servitude: Indigenous Slavery and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean--Luis N. Rivera-Pagán Preface--Federico Mayor * Description of the Project--Roy Augier * Introduction--Jalil Sued Badillo * Ethnohistorical Research in the Hispanic Caribbean--Jalil Sued-Badillo * The Physical Environment: Biogeographical Teleconnections in Caribbean Prehistory--Francisco Watlington * The First Caribbean People: Part I: The Palaeindians in Cuba and the Circum-Caribbean--José M. Guarch-Delmonte * The First Caribbean People: Part II: The Archaics--A. Gus Pantel * Agricultural Societies in the Continental Caribbean--Arie Boomert * Agricutural Societies in the Caribbean: The Lesser Antilles--Louis Allaire * Agricultural Societies in the Caribbean: The Greater Antilles and the Bahamas--Luis A. Chanlatte Baik * The Indigenous Societies at the Time of Conquest--Jalil Sued-Badillo * Chiefdoms in the Islands and Mainland: A Comparison--Franciso Moscoso * Freedom and Servitude: Indigenous Slavery and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean--Luis N. Rivera-Pagán