From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 12, 1984 - History - 608 pages
The 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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Introduction
10
Westward Ho
13
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies
18
Copyright

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Eric Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from their achievement of independence in 1962 until his death in 1981. He is the author of the classic Capitalism and Slavery.

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