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 232
... West Indies . But his concern was that the United States needed access not to the British West Indies but to all the West Indian islands , and , not for the last time , envisaged that Europe's troubles would be the United States ...
... West Indies . But his concern was that the United States needed access not to the British West Indies but to all the West Indian islands , and , not for the last time , envisaged that Europe's troubles would be the United States ...
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... British West Indian sugar production , in fact , was actually declining ... Indies were alleged to be overproducing . The ingenious explanation offered ... Caribbean was a metropolitan The Abolition of the Caribbean Slave System 289.
... British West Indian sugar production , in fact , was actually declining ... Indies were alleged to be overproducing . The ingenious explanation offered ... Caribbean was a metropolitan The Abolition of the Caribbean Slave System 289.
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... British Guiana , were slightly more than one - third those of the British West Indies , and slightly larger than those of Martinique and Guadeloupe added together . In 1882 Cuba's production was nearly nineteen times the exports of ...
... British Guiana , were slightly more than one - third those of the British West Indies , and slightly larger than those of Martinique and Guadeloupe added together . In 1882 Cuba's production was nearly nineteen times the exports of ...
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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