HIST 211: Reimaging the Caribbean: Empire, Commodities, and Labor 1492-1830 (FALL 2024)

• Limit publication date to post 1990 to exclude primary sources.
• pay attention to SUBJECT terms
• use a mix of keywords and subjects
• Pay attention to chapters.

1. TOPICS

• slavery in the Atlantic World
• rebellions and topics surrounding abolition and emancipation
•  indigenous slavery
• early Spanish Caribbean,
• environmental history
• land use,
• piracy

2. Terms

• Slavery, atlantic world
• slave rebellions, Caribbean
• Abolition and emancipation
• Indigenous slavery
• spanish caribbean
• Environmental history, caribbean
• Caribbean, land use
• Piracy, Caribbean

3. Synonyms

• Slave, slaves, slavery, enslaved, caribbean, atlantic world
• Slave rebellions, revolts
• Abolition, emancipation
• indigenous slavery
• spanish caribbean
• Environmental history, caribbean
• Caribbean, land use
• Piracy, smuggling, privateers, pirates

4. Searches with AND OR NOT

• slavery in the Atlantic World
  • (slave* OR enslaved) AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
    • too many books. narrow
      • ex (slave* OR enslaved) AND (caribbean)
• rebellions 
  • (slave* OR enslaved) AND (rebel* OR revolt* OR uprising*) AND caribbean
    • narrow to Subject search
• abolition and emancipation
  • (abolition* OR emancipat*) AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
    • too broad. narrow to just Caribbean
•  indigenous slavery
  • ("indigenous slavery") AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
  • (caribbean OR atlantic) AND (slave* OR enslave*) AND ("indians of north america" OR "indigenous")
    • too broad, narrow to (atlantic) AND (slave* OR enslave*) AND ("indians of north america" OR "indigenous")
• early Spanish Caribbean,
  • (Spain OR spanish) AND caribbean
    • too broad. narrow to (Spain OR spanish) AND caribbean AND history
• environmental history
  • caribbean AND "environmental history"
• land use,
  • caribbean AND ("land use" OR "land usage")
    • results to contemporary
      • caribbean AND (farm* OR land OR agric*) AND history
• piracy
  • caribbean AND (pirate* OR piracy)
    • Lot of results. Narrow to subject search