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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... average output per factory of 115 tons : less than half the British West Indian average , less than half the output of each Cuban factory in 1859. Jamaica's exports of 19,934 tons , produced on 30,036 acres in 140 factories by 39,046 ...
... average output per factory of 115 tons : less than half the British West Indian average , less than half the output of each Cuban factory in 1859. Jamaica's exports of 19,934 tons , produced on 30,036 acres in 140 factories by 39,046 ...
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... average absentee plantation in Barbados was nearly 300 acres in size , as compared with an island average of 168 ; in British Guiana it was 1,281 acres as compared with an overall average of 1,045 . The way in which the British West ...
... average absentee plantation in Barbados was nearly 300 acres in size , as compared with an island average of 168 ; in British Guiana it was 1,281 acres as compared with an overall average of 1,045 . The way in which the British West ...
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... average of 317 producers per mill in 1939. The four American sugar companies produced almost half of the total ... average per American mill was 157,000 tons of sugar as compared with an average of 104,000 for the whole island ; that is ...
... average of 317 producers per mill in 1939. The four American sugar companies produced almost half of the total ... average per American mill was 157,000 tons of sugar as compared with an average of 104,000 for the whole island ; that is ...
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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