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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... Dutch canal . The new European annexations in the Caribbean , English , French and Danish de jure , were de facto Dutch . The Dutch stood for free trade rather than monopoly . With the exception of Surinam , where the lure of sugar was ...
... Dutch canal . The new European annexations in the Caribbean , English , French and Danish de jure , were de facto Dutch . The Dutch stood for free trade rather than monopoly . With the exception of Surinam , where the lure of sugar was ...
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... Dutch sack . The war for territory with Spain was thus converted into a war for trade with Holland . ' If they subsist by their trade , ' Sir Walter Raleigh had said of the Dutch a generation earlier , ' the disturbance of their trade ...
... Dutch sack . The war for territory with Spain was thus converted into a war for trade with Holland . ' If they subsist by their trade , ' Sir Walter Raleigh had said of the Dutch a generation earlier , ' the disturbance of their trade ...
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... Dutch by furnishing them firearms and ammunition ' . The Cato of France , his abiding theme may be expressed in the words , ' Batavia delenda est , ' Holland must be destroyed . All foreign vessels , but particularly the Dutch , were to ...
... Dutch by furnishing them firearms and ammunition ' . The Cato of France , his abiding theme may be expressed in the words , ' Batavia delenda est , ' Holland must be destroyed . All foreign vessels , but particularly the Dutch , were to ...
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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