Becoming Belize

A History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity, 1528-1823

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ID19911172
AuthorsMavis C Campbell (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages448
Publication date2011-08-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBecoming Belize (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe University of the West Indies Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37234/mmnsaabk
OpenAlexW4388259256
Open LibraryOL28493093M
ISBN9789766402464
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Belize, formerly British Honduras, had a different beginning from most other British Caribbean colonies and was not dependent on sugar production but on the exploitation of the forests for timber. Unlike most books on Belize, this study explores in some detail the early Spanish attempts to colonize the area called Belize today and identifies many of the problems Spain encountered. Campbell persuasively posits that Belizean history can be pushed much further back from the traditional starting point of either the mid-seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The book provides a compelling thesis on the alliance between the British logwood cutters (the Baymen) and the Miskito Indians who together formed the major counterbalance to Spain’s power. The work also explores how social relations under forestry slavery were marked by less outward resistance and violence than that which obtained under the British sugar/slave economies of the region

Alliance · Archaeology · Biology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Work (physics) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Ecology · Engineering · Historical Studies in Central America · History · Belize · Colonization · Labor supply · Miskito Indians · Slavery

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