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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... European power politics , the cockpit of Europe , the arena of Europe's wars hot and cold . This imperialist rivalry was anticipated even before the voyage of Columbus . A resident of Portugal , Columbus first sought Portuguese ...
... European power politics , the cockpit of Europe , the arena of Europe's wars hot and cold . This imperialist rivalry was anticipated even before the voyage of Columbus . A resident of Portugal , Columbus first sought Portuguese ...
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... Europe . Spain's armies and Spanish hegemony in Europe were financed by Spain's mines and trade in the Caribbean and America . It be- came , therefore , a matter of vital policy for the Protestant powers to sap Spanish strength and ...
... Europe . Spain's armies and Spanish hegemony in Europe were financed by Spain's mines and trade in the Caribbean and America . It be- came , therefore , a matter of vital policy for the Protestant powers to sap Spanish strength and ...
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... Europe should contribute towards supply- ing ... that vast empire with their manufactures and merchandises . ' Thus ... Europe in the eighteenth . Had the Ambassador remonstrated , he would have objected to the ' all Europe ' . There was ...
... Europe should contribute towards supply- ing ... that vast empire with their manufactures and merchandises . ' Thus ... Europe in the eighteenth . Had the Ambassador remonstrated , he would have objected to the ' all Europe ' . There was ...
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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