Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- 38 Spanish South America
- 39 Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
- 40 Brazil
- 41 Latin America: A Commentary
- Index
39 - Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
from Latin America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- 38 Spanish South America
- 39 Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
- 40 Brazil
- 41 Latin America: A Commentary
- Index
Summary
The Greater Caribbean is a sprawling, diverse region that encompasses the mainland and islands surrounding the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. For a few decades in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Greater Caribbean was at least nominally contained within a single polity – the Viceroyalty of New Spain. In 2015, the Greater Caribbean had slightly more than 200 million inhabitants, distributed unevenly across the region. Mexico alone is home to 63 percent of the total. The Greater Antilles (Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica) are home to 19 percent, or almost 39 million people.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 782 - 798Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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