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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... territories . Thus Puerto Rico ( in spite of impressive gains in industrial development and increases in per capita ... territories and metropolitan countries and frustrate the creation of ' horizontal ' ties between the countries of the ...
... territories . Thus Puerto Rico ( in spite of impressive gains in industrial development and increases in per capita ... territories and metropolitan countries and frustrate the creation of ' horizontal ' ties between the countries of the ...
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... territorial boundaries of the Caribbean territories . These extensive economic contacts with the outside world do have their positive side . The standard of living and per capita incomes of nearly all the Caribbean countries ( with the ...
... territorial boundaries of the Caribbean territories . These extensive economic contacts with the outside world do have their positive side . The standard of living and per capita incomes of nearly all the Caribbean countries ( with the ...
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... territories will continue to be playthings of outside Governments and outside in- vestors . To increase the ' countervailing power ' of the small in- dividual units vis - à - vis the strong outside Governments and out- side companies ...
... territories will continue to be playthings of outside Governments and outside in- vestors . To increase the ' countervailing power ' of the small in- dividual units vis - à - vis the strong outside Governments and out- side companies ...
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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