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 117
... cultivation of the latter , inasmuch as there is reason to expect that the islands , in propor- tion as their lands are cleared and put in cultivation , will produce too large a quantity of sugar . Variety in cultivation is more ...
... cultivation of the latter , inasmuch as there is reason to expect that the islands , in propor- tion as their lands are cleared and put in cultivation , will produce too large a quantity of sugar . Variety in cultivation is more ...
Page 379
... cultivation was impossible , represented the only instance in which the spread of sugar cultivation in other tropical areas was not attended with the degradation of labour which charac- terised the Caribbean sugar industry . In ...
... cultivation was impossible , represented the only instance in which the spread of sugar cultivation in other tropical areas was not attended with the degradation of labour which charac- terised the Caribbean sugar industry . In ...
Page 448
... cultivation . ' The Olivier Sugar Commission paid particular attention to this question of land settlement in 1928 and came up with the follow- ing conclusion : ' We must record our considered opinion that it is impossible to expect any ...
... cultivation . ' The Olivier Sugar Commission paid particular attention to this question of land settlement in 1928 and came up with the follow- ing conclusion : ' We must record our considered opinion that it is impossible to expect any ...
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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