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 461
... Puerto Rico , as enunciated by President Franklin Roosevelt , was that ' the coming generation of American citizens in Puerto Rico grow up with complete facility in the English tongue ' . So the Puerto Rican schools had to continue to ...
... Puerto Rico , as enunciated by President Franklin Roosevelt , was that ' the coming generation of American citizens in Puerto Rico grow up with complete facility in the English tongue ' . So the Puerto Rican schools had to continue to ...
Page 467
... Puerto Rico as a military outpost . The Puerto Ricans repeatedly agitated for increased par- ticipation in their own government . The single concession accorded to them was the declaration in 1812 that Puerto Rico was an integral part ...
... Puerto Rico as a military outpost . The Puerto Ricans repeatedly agitated for increased par- ticipation in their own government . The single concession accorded to them was the declaration in 1812 that Puerto Rico was an integral part ...
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... Puerto Rican identity has been destroyed . Puerto Rico has in fact solved its problems of economic and social transformation by incorporating itself into the U.S. economy . The recent election of a pro - Statehood Gover- nor in that ...
... Puerto Rican identity has been destroyed . Puerto Rico has in fact solved its problems of economic and social transformation by incorporating itself into the U.S. economy . The recent election of a pro - Statehood Gover- nor in that ...
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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