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 116
... England's export trade to the Continent . The danger was serious enough for Sir Dalby Thomas to take its gloomy consequences into account : the supremacy of Holland or France would mean for England a loss similar to what supremacy of ...
... England's export trade to the Continent . The danger was serious enough for Sir Dalby Thomas to take its gloomy consequences into account : the supremacy of Holland or France would mean for England a loss similar to what supremacy of ...
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... England , a visible and tangible symbol of the wealth that was sugar . Barbados maintained a lobby in England from 1670 to look after its interests ; they met regularly at a tavern in London . The Jamaican Coffee House , formerly and ...
... England , a visible and tangible symbol of the wealth that was sugar . Barbados maintained a lobby in England from 1670 to look after its interests ; they met regularly at a tavern in London . The Jamaican Coffee House , formerly and ...
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... England protested against refining in the British colonies . England supported them as France supported the French refiners . The matter came before Parliament in 1671 , at the very period when Colbert was urging the increase of ...
... England protested against refining in the British colonies . England supported them as France supported the French refiners . The matter came before Parliament in 1671 , at the very period when Colbert was urging the increase 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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