part I. Indigenous and other Caribbeans
Kalinago colonizers : indigenous people and the settlement of the Lesser Antilles / Tessa Murphy
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Indian slavery, and the Anglo-Dutch wars / Carolyn Arena
Indigeneity and authority in the Lesser Antilles : the Warners revisited / Sarah Barber
part II. Empire, settlement, and war in the torrid zone:
The cases of Suriname, Jamaica, Danish West Indies, and Saint-Domingue
Second is best : Dutch colonization on the "wild coast" / Jessica Vance Roitman
Colonial life in times of war : the impact of European wars on Suriname / Suze Zijlstra and Tom Weterings
Reassessing Jamayca Española : Spanish fortifications and English designs in Jamaica / Amanda J. Snyder
Making Jamaica English : priorities and processes / James Robertson
The Danish West Indies, 1660s-1750s : formative years / Erik Gobel
Creating a Caribbean colony in the long seventeenth century : Saint-Domingue and the pirates / Giovanni Venegoni
part III. Extending the torrid zone
The Martinican model : colonial magistrates and the origins of a global judicial elite / Laurie M. Wood
Experimenting with acceptance, Caribbean-style : Jews as aliens in the Anglophone torrid zone / Barry L. Stiefel
Carolina, the torrid zone, and the migration of Anglo-American political culture / L.H. Roper.