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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492–1969

By Eric Williams

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1984
ISBN
0394715020, 9780394715025
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2098105 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage Books edition
Pages
608\0
Time added
2019-07-12 03:01:12

Description

From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.

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