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 364
... Cuban crop was produced under the colono system . The second corollary was a vast stimulus to monoculture . In 1833 Cuba's coffee exports amounted to 64,150,000 pounds weight , produced on 2,067 estates ; in 1862 , the estates had ...
... Cuban crop was produced under the colono system . The second corollary was a vast stimulus to monoculture . In 1833 Cuba's coffee exports amounted to 64,150,000 pounds weight , produced on 2,067 estates ; in 1862 , the estates had ...
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... Cuban republic . Converted later into a tobacco factory , in which room was found for 450 workers , the palace stands today , a monument to King Sugar . The royal ambitions of the Cuban sugar planters were strikingly demonstrated by an ...
... Cuban republic . Converted later into a tobacco factory , in which room was found for 450 workers , the palace stands today , a monument to King Sugar . The royal ambitions of the Cuban sugar planters were strikingly demonstrated by an ...
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... Cuban ' philosophy ' , this is an indispensable book not only for Cuban but indeed for Caribbean historical analysis . Available in an English translation , Sugar and Society in the Caribbean , New Haven , 1964 J. Weiss y Sánchez , La ...
... Cuban ' philosophy ' , this is an indispensable book not only for Cuban but indeed for Caribbean historical analysis . Available in an English translation , Sugar and Society in the Caribbean , New Haven , 1964 J. Weiss y Sánchez , La ...
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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