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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... period 1815- 1894 Cuba's production nearly tripled . Total British West Indian exports increased by one - half . Total French West Indian exports were twice as large in 1894 as in 1818 . An analysis of the British West Indian figures ...
... period 1815- 1894 Cuba's production nearly tripled . Total British West Indian exports increased by one - half . Total French West Indian exports were twice as large in 1894 as in 1818 . An analysis of the British West Indian figures ...
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... period is G. C. Smith , Forerunners of Drake , A Study of English Trade with Spain in the Early Tudor Period , London , 1953 . ( 2 ) The Anglo - French Rivalry , 1656–1783 The principal sources for the study of this period , documentary ...
... period is G. C. Smith , Forerunners of Drake , A Study of English Trade with Spain in the Early Tudor Period , London , 1953 . ( 2 ) The Anglo - French Rivalry , 1656–1783 The principal sources for the study of this period , documentary ...
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... period is G. C. Smith , Forerunners of Drake , A Study of English Trade with Spain in the Early Tudor Period , London , 1953 . ( 2 ) The Anglo - French Rivalry , 1656-1783 The principal sources for the study of this period , documentary ...
... period is G. C. Smith , Forerunners of Drake , A Study of English Trade with Spain in the Early Tudor Period , London , 1953 . ( 2 ) The Anglo - French Rivalry , 1656-1783 The principal sources for the study of this period , documentary ...
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Westward Ho | 13 |
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies | 18 |
Copyright | |
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