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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... French trade , Colbert , in a discourse on manufactures in 1663 , discussed the West Indian trade at some length . He emphasised that the French linen industry might be aided by opening up markets in the New World , and that Dutch trade ...
... French trade , Colbert , in a discourse on manufactures in 1663 , discussed the West Indian trade at some length . He emphasised that the French linen industry might be aided by opening up markets in the New World , and that Dutch trade ...
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... French planter , reared in the school of misfortune , revealing the frugality typical of the French , from peer to peasant . This was rhetoric . The French planter was even more heavily in debt than his British rival . French colonial ...
... French planter , reared in the school of misfortune , revealing the frugality typical of the French , from peer to peasant . This was rhetoric . The French planter was even more heavily in debt than his British rival . French colonial ...
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... French colonial imports employed 164,081 tons of shipping , navigated by 33,400 seamen ; British West Indian imports ... French over the British colonies before the Revolution . The proportion which the French colony trade bore to the ...
... French colonial imports employed 164,081 tons of shipping , navigated by 33,400 seamen ; British West Indian imports ... French over the British colonies before the Revolution . The proportion which the French colony trade bore to the ...
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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