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 348
... immigration will succeed ; but taking a higher point of view , and looking to the moral results , a population such as I have described is not improved by an influx of such people as immigrants generally are ; the habits which they ...
... immigration will succeed ; but taking a higher point of view , and looking to the moral results , a population such as I have described is not improved by an influx of such people as immigrants generally are ; the habits which they ...
Page 357
... immigrants introduced from 1854 , from India , Madeira and Africa , had depleted the Immigration Fund . The paper advocated that the cost of immigration in the future should be defrayed partly by the employers of immigrants and partly ...
... immigrants introduced from 1854 , from India , Madeira and Africa , had depleted the Immigration Fund . The paper advocated that the cost of immigration in the future should be defrayed partly by the employers of immigrants and partly ...
Page 359
... immigration from India into British Guiana and Trinidad - subtracting repatriates from immigrants — was 24,260 . As many Indians came in as West Indians left Jamaica . Remittances received through the Barbadian Post Office in the years ...
... immigration from India into British Guiana and Trinidad - subtracting repatriates from immigrants — was 24,260 . As many Indians came in as West Indians left Jamaica . Remittances received through the Barbadian Post Office in the years ...
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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