A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the PresentThis comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people. |
Contents
PART | 1 |
DISCOVERY OF THE ISLANDS | 22 |
PIRATES FIGHT FOR SPANISH GOLD | 34 |
SPAINS CARIBBEAN COLONIES | 45 |
PART | 57 |
SETTLEMENT OF THE LESSER ANTILLES | 67 |
THE BUCCANEERS OF JAMICA | 85 |
WAR AND PIRACY 16651720 | 97 |
HISPANIOLA AND THE LEEWARD ISLANDS | 210 |
PART FIVE | 223 |
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI | 254 |
COLONIALISMS MIXED BLESSINGS | 278 |
THE BRITISH COLONIES GAIN | 309 |
JAMAICA TRINIDAD BARBADOS AND | 324 |
THE ENGLISHSPEAKING EASTERN | 347 |
Notes | 382 |
PART THREE | 105 |
THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES | 129 |
THE BRITISH COLONIES | 179 |
THE SPANISH ISLANDS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM | 199 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 390 |
Photo Credits | 400 |
Other editions - View all
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present Jan Rogozinski Limited preview - 2000 |
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present Jan Rogoziński No preview available - 1999 |
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