Description:
The first comparative treatment of settler's trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean
Brief description: L. H. Roper is a professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz and cogeneral editor of the Journal of Early American History. His most recent publications are Advancing Empire: English Interest and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 and The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley, a volume for which he as a coeditor. Roper was a 2015 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Work.
Review Quotes: "The chapters collected in The Torrid Zone demonstrate the historical significance of the long seventeenth century as the foundational period that shaped the emergence of the Greater Caribbean. Each author offers new insights into old issues and debates, while drawing attention to new areas of inquiry. A splendid collection of refined scholarship that stirs the mind and imagination."--David Barry Gaspar, Duke University