From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of 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. |
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Page 431
... American Company operated 570 miles of railway . Guantanamo Company owned 70 miles and in addition owned 80 per cent of the stock of the Guantanamo Railroad Company . Manati Company owned 176 miles of its own railway and in addition ...
... American Company operated 570 miles of railway . Guantanamo Company owned 70 miles and in addition owned 80 per cent of the stock of the Guantanamo Railroad Company . Manati Company owned 176 miles of its own railway and in addition ...
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... American sugar companies produced almost half of the total output in 1935 . American capital accelerated a similar centralisation in the Dominican Republic . The West Indies Sugar Corporation and the South Porto Rico Company together ...
... American sugar companies produced almost half of the total output in 1935 . American capital accelerated a similar centralisation in the Dominican Republic . The West Indies Sugar Corporation and the South Porto Rico Company together ...
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... American Marines were withdrawn by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Good Neighbour Policy . The situation was more discouraging in Cuba , which was in every sense of the term an American colony . The Americans openly supported , in ...
... American Marines were withdrawn by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Good Neighbour Policy . The situation was more discouraging in Cuba , which was in every sense of the term an American colony . The Americans openly supported , in ...
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Westward Ho | 13 |
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies | 18 |
Copyright | |
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 Eric Williams No preview available - 1983 |
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