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"The Caribbean is a region that has been at the heart of world history and global development for centuries. Despite its small geographic size, it is the lynchpin of the Atlantic economy. Further, through a series of migrations, Caribbean people are represented in most of the major cities of the West, and have impacted the histories of Britain, Canada, and the United States, as well as places throughout Europe and Latin America.

The Caribbean History Reader provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of Caribbean history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. It brings together a range of classic and innovative articles and primary sources, to create an introduction to Caribbean political, economic, social and cultural currents, providing an important first reference point to scholars and students alike."--pub. desc.

Pre-Colombian Societies

First Encounters

Trade, Piracy and War

Sugar, the Plantation Revolution and the Development of the Slave Economy

Slave Society

Slave Resistance

The Haitian Revolution

Abolition and Emancipation

Post-Emancipation Society and Economy

Indentured Labour and Nineteenth Century Immigration

U.S. Interventions and Influences in the Early Twentieth Century

The Africanization of the Caribbean

War, Labor and Urban Protest

Dictatorship and Political Repression : Trujillo and Duvalier

Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean and Suriname

Politics and Society in the Non-Independent Caribbean

The Revolutionary Caribbean : Cuba and Grenada

Economic Diversification and Development

Race, Identity and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Migration and Diaspora.

Caribbean Area > History.

Caribbean Area > Politics and government.

Caribbean Area > Social conditions.