Santiago de la Vega

The Spanish renamed it. They built a capital — Santiago de la Vega, 'Saint James of the Plain' — and set abouttransforming Jamaica from an indigenous island into a colonial outpost of the Spanish Empire. Volume 2 of AMulti-Volume History of Jamaica covers one of the least-told chapters of Jamaican history: the century and a half ofSpanish rule that shaped everything that came after.This volume fol...