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 86
... century . The Ambassador was not a child . The unprecedented liberality con- cealed a galling humiliation . Spain , the cynosure of all eyes in the sixteenth century , was the sick man of Europe in the eighteenth . Had the Ambassador ...
... century . The Ambassador was not a child . The unprecedented liberality con- cealed a galling humiliation . Spain , the cynosure of all eyes in the sixteenth century , was the sick man of Europe in the eighteenth . Had the Ambassador ...
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... century economy that steel occupied in the nineteenth and oil in the twentieth . Sugar was king . The eighteenth - century sugar plantation was a costly under- taking , which required an increasingly large capital investment for land ...
... century economy that steel occupied in the nineteenth and oil in the twentieth . Sugar was king . The eighteenth - century sugar plantation was a costly under- taking , which required an increasingly large capital investment for land ...
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... century . The eighteenth - century plantation was a ver- sion differing only in date from the story begun in Hispaniola in the sixteenth century and continued in Barbados in the seven- teenth . Contemporaries estimated that less than ...
... century . The eighteenth - century plantation was a ver- sion differing only in date from the story begun in Hispaniola in the sixteenth century and continued in Barbados in the seven- teenth . Contemporaries estimated that less than ...
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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