The pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Caribbean
Bust of Taino chief Cacique Mabodamaca in Isabela, Puerto Rico.
The collections hold a rich body of historical, archaeological, archival and contemporary sources on the region's indigenous inhabitants, their encounters with Europeans and the early colonial period.
Key catalogue subject themes: Caribbean Area Indigenous Peoples ; Carib Indians ; Taino Indians ; Taino Indians Religion And Mythology ; Indians Of The West Indies History ; Indians First Contact With Europeans ; Indians Of The West Indies First Occidental Contact
The Amerindian Antilles
- Bartolomé de las Casas – 16th Century Spanish historian and priest - on Amerindian history, culture, European contact and genocide [61 items] http://bit.ly/2tdpxsj
- The indigenous people of the Caribbean / edited by Samuel M. Wilson. - http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2630138~S24
- Lords of the tiger spirit : a history of the Caribs in colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498-1820 / Neil L. Whitehead http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1267792~S24
- The Tainos : rise and decline of the people who greeted Columbus / Rouse, Irving http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1048003~S24
- The earliest inhabitants : the dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno / edited by Lesley-Gail Atkinson - http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2958561~S24
- Centring the periphery : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica / Baker http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1136740~S24
- Wild Majesty : encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day : an anthology / edited by Peter Hulme and Neil L. Whitehead. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1025516~S24
- Remnants of conquest: the Island Caribs and their visitors, 1877-1998 / Peter Hulme. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2725920~S2
- Colonial encounters: Europe and the native Caribbean, 1492-1797 / Peter Hulme. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1068531~S24
- Les Petites Antilles avant Christophe Colomb : vie quotidienne des Indiens de la Guadeloupe / Christian Montbrun. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1386320~S24
The school’s libraries offer a concise overview of the archaeological Caribbean. For a more specialised collection visit the nearby UCL library: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/about/library
- Island lives: historical archaeologies of the Caribbean / edited by Paul Farnsworth. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2714536~S24
- The Oxford handbook of Caribbean archaeology / edited by William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman, and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3272371~S24
- Encyclopaedia of Caribbean archaeology / edited by Basil A. Reid and R. Grant Gilmore III. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3305705~S24
- Rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3235289~S24
- Im Thurn – numerous archaeological and anthropological works mainly on the indigenous peoples of what was British Guiana [7 items] http://bit.ly/2udu9Tk
- The story of the Arawaks in Antigua and Barbuda / by Desmond V. Nicholson. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1188756~S24
- Art précolombien de la Martinique / M. Mattioni, M. Nicolas. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1385954~S24
- The archaeology of Grenada, West Indies. / Bullen, Ripley P. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1406659~S24
'New World’ Encounters, Invasion and Colonisation
- 42 volume series on Spanish invasion and settlement (1490s-1520) - Colección de documentos inéditos : relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organización de las antiguas posesiones españolas de América y Oceanía, sacados de los archivos del reino, y muy especialmente del de Indias. Competentemente autorizada.
[ 'Collection of unpublished documents: relating to discovery, conquest, and organization of the ancient Spanish possessions in America and Oceania, drawn from the archives of the Kingdom, and particularly of the Indies. Competently authorized' ]
http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2308182~S24
- Mira Caballos, Esteban. (2000) Las Antillas Mayores, 1492-1550 : ensayos y documentos / The Greater Antilles, 1492-1550: essays and documents http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3081890~S24
- Taíno Indian myth and practice: the arrival of the stranger king / William F. Keegan http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3035911~S24
- La aventura de Colón en Cuba / Francisco Pérez Guzmán. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1281542~S24
- Christoper Columbus and the enterprise of the Indies : a brief history with documents / Geoffrey Symcox and Blair Sullivan. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2932242~S24
- The Columbus dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526 / [by] Troy S. Floyd. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1158532~S24
- Vázquez de Espinosa, Antonio - Compendium and description of the West Indies / by Antonio Vázques de Espinosa, translated by Charles Upson Clark. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1308327~S24
The Hakluyt Society – publishers of 1st hand historic travel accounts
- Champlain, Samuel de, - Narrative of a voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the years 1599-1602 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2305727~S24
- Andrews, Kenneth R. - English privateering voyages to the West Indies (1588-1595) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2217198~S24
- The narrative of General Venables : with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1433876~S24
- Royal historical society (1926) Spanish narratives of the English attack on Santo Domingo, 1655 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1409469~S24
- The Anglo-Spanish struggle for Mosquitia / by Troy S. Floyd http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1330689~S24
The British Army (1794) Proclamations and other papers issued by the British commanders in the French West India islands. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1679021~S4
- 'Carib War' [4 items] - war and expulsion of 'Black Carib' / Garifuna peoples to Honduras http://bit.ly/2tCy6xy
- 'Authentic papers relative to the expedition against the Charibbs, and the sale of lands in the island of St. Vincent'. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1702054~S24