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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... cane growing and sugar manufacturing are under a single administration ... The highest cane and sugar yields per acre , the best qualities of cane , and the maximum recovery of sugar per ton of cane , are found in countries where all ...
... cane growing and sugar manufacturing are under a single administration ... The highest cane and sugar yields per acre , the best qualities of cane , and the maximum recovery of sugar per ton of cane , are found in countries where all ...
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... cane farms throughout the island . Plantings of cane covering more than 500 acres were less than one per cent of the sugar - cane farms , but comprised 60 per cent of the total cane acreage and produced 67 per cent of the sugar in 1935 ...
... cane farms throughout the island . Plantings of cane covering more than 500 acres were less than one per cent of the sugar - cane farms , but comprised 60 per cent of the total cane acreage and produced 67 per cent of the sugar in 1935 ...
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... cane in 1896 to 20,000 growing 375,000 tons of cane ( half the island's output ) in 1928. But the situation was radically different in Puerto Rico . Nearly 75 per cent of the sugar cane farms in Puerto Rico had less than 10 acres in ...
... cane in 1896 to 20,000 growing 375,000 tons of cane ( half the island's output ) in 1928. But the situation was radically different in Puerto Rico . Nearly 75 per cent of the sugar cane farms in Puerto Rico had less than 10 acres in ...
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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