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 503
... Caribbean . Jamaica is seething with racial tension , black versus brown and white . The labour unrest in Antigua and the labour riots in Curaçao were both responses to Black Power propaganda . The large Indian population of Guyana ...
... Caribbean . Jamaica is seething with racial tension , black versus brown and white . The labour unrest in Antigua and the labour riots in Curaçao were both responses to Black Power propaganda . The large Indian population of Guyana ...
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... Caribbean has so far been the ' outsider ' in the New World . The U.S.A. and Canada have emerged as sovereign countries with an identity of their own - even though in recent years Canadians have had reason to be worried about the ...
... Caribbean has so far been the ' outsider ' in the New World . The U.S.A. and Canada have emerged as sovereign countries with an identity of their own - even though in recent years Canadians have had reason to be worried about the ...
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... Caribbean showed that the quest for identity and solidarity among the ex - British possessions in the Caribbean had to be pursued by other means— namely , the method of regional economic collaboration and the working out of ...
... Caribbean showed that the quest for identity and solidarity among the ex - British possessions in the Caribbean had to be pursued by other means— namely , the method of regional economic collaboration and the working out 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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