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The Caribbean; The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism

ISBN: 9780195054415 | 0195054415
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/4/1990

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SummaryTable of Contents
A history of the Caribbean lands that focuses on their colonial period but also gives coverage on events before and after.
Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes inpolitical control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolu... MORE
Maps and Tables
xi
Introduction to the First Editionxiii
The Political Geography of the Pre-Hispanic Caribbean
3(24)
... MORE
Settlements and Colonies
27(39)
Patterns of Colonization in the New World
66(22)
Imperialism and Slavery
88(32)
Social Structure of the Plantation Society
120(39)
Imperial Fragmentation and Colonial Social Reconstruction, 1793--1886
159(34)
Caribbean Nation Building 1: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
193(34)
Caribbean Nation Building 2: Cuba, 1868--1989
227(30)
Caribbean Nation Building 3: Puerto Rico and the Ambivalent Identity
257(18)
Caribbean Nation Building 4: The Commonwealth Caribbean
275(32)
State and Nationalism in the Contemporary Caribbean
307(26)
Chronology333(14)
A Selected Guide to the Historical Literature on the Caribbean347(16)
Tables363(12)
Index375

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