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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... less than half the British West Indian average , less than half the output of each Cuban factory in 1859. Jamaica's exports of 19,934 tons , produced on 30,036 acres in 140 factories by 39,046 workers , represented an average of two ...
... less than half the British West Indian average , less than half the output of each Cuban factory in 1859. Jamaica's exports of 19,934 tons , produced on 30,036 acres in 140 factories by 39,046 workers , represented an average of two ...
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... Less than half in 1902 , the proportion was more than nine - tenths in the boom year 1920. There was a corresponding decline in the con- tribution of the tobacco industry to the economy . Tobacco , the field par excellence of small ...
... Less than half in 1902 , the proportion was more than nine - tenths in the boom year 1920. There was a corresponding decline in the con- tribution of the tobacco industry to the economy . Tobacco , the field par excellence of small ...
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... less than 75 cents a day , in 1935– 1936 only 11 per cent of the field workers and 2 per cent of the factory workers fell below this level . On the Lafayette Plantation , run by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration as a model ...
... less than 75 cents a day , in 1935– 1936 only 11 per cent of the field workers and 2 per cent of the factory workers fell below this level . On the Lafayette Plantation , run by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration as a model ...
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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