Travellers History: The Caribbean

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A concise and authoritative history of the entire region covering the larger nations of the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the smaller islands of the Eastern Caribbean and the French, British, and Dutch territories. Tracing the islands' path from slavery to revolution and independence, A Traveller's History of the Caribbean looks at the history of countries as different as Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti, exploring their diversity and their common ...
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Overview

A concise and authoritative history of the entire region covering the larger nations of the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the smaller islands of the Eastern Caribbean and the French, British, and Dutch territories. Tracing the islands' path from slavery to revolution and independence, A Traveller's History of the Caribbean looks at the history of countries as different as Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti, exploring their diversity and their common experiences. It reveals a region in which a tumultuous past has created a culturally vibrant and intriguing present.
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Lisa I.S. Archibald
Reading like a novel, each of Ferguson's tales heightens the thrill of the previous chapter. In allowing voices of historians from the region into the text, the book always seems to offer a credible story and history of the Caribbean....An excellent portrait of the Caribbean, A Traveller's History of the Caribbean will be equally meaningful for both the student and the traveller. -- ForeWord Magazine
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781566566902
  • Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/2008
  • Series: Traveller's History Series
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 658,296
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Columbus and the indigenous Caribbean 1

Ch. 2 The Spanish in the Caribbean 29

Ch. 3 European battlefield 57

Ch. 4 Sugar and slavery 86

Ch. 5 Revolution and self-emancipation 120

Ch. 6 Abolition and after 151

Ch. 7 The American sea 188

Ch. 8 Unrest and reform 227

Ch. 9 Independence and the Cold War 262

Ch. 10 The modern Caribbean 303

Chronology of major events 341

Heads of government since independence 347

Further reading 353

Historical gazetteer 355

Index 367

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