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On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989

On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989

On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989
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ISBN-10:
184277767X
ISBN-13:
9781842777671
Pub. Date:
07/01/2007
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
184277767X
ISBN-13:
9781842777671
Pub. Date:
07/01/2007
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989

On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989

Overview

The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine, anonymous islands are simply peaceful idylls. The notion of 'getting away from it all' lures countless visitors, offering the possibility of total disconnect for the world-weary.

In On the Move Alejandra Bronfman argues that in fact the opposite is true; the Caribbean is, and has always been, deeply engaged with the wider world. From drugs and tourism to international political struggles, these islands form an integral part of world history and of the present, and are themselves in a constant state of economic and social flux in the face of global transformations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781842777671
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/01/2007
Series: Global History of the Present
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Alejandra Bronfman is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She has travelled extensively in the Caribbean, and is the author of Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 (2004) in addition to several articles on Caribbean history.
Alejandra Bronfman is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She has travelled extensively in the Caribbean, and is the author of Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 (2004) in addition to several articles on Caribbean history.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Transporting Citizenship
Chapter 2 - Sell it to Save It
Chapter 3 - The Traffic
Chapter 4 -Wired on the Islands
Conclusion
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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