Title: From Columbus to Castro : the history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 /
Authors: Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981.
Publisher: Vintage Books,
Year: 1984
Subjects: West Indies History.
Abstract: Examines the political, social, and economic forces which have shaped the history of the entire West Indian area since the fifteenth century.
Contents: Westward ho! -- Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the West Indies -- Gold and sugar -- White capital and coloured labour -- Spanish colonialism -- Colonial nationalism -- The cockpit of Europe -- The poor whites -- King sugar -- Capitalism and slavery -- The exclusive -- White colonials versus black colonials -- Crush the infamy! -- Down with colonialism! The American Revolution -- Down with colonialism and slavery! The Haitian Revolution -- Colonialism and slavery after the Haitian Revolution -- The abolition of the Caribbean slave system -- The ordeal of free labour -- Asian immigration -- The West Indian sugar economy in the nineteenth century -- The struggle for the world sugar market -- Nineteenth-century colonialism -- Manifest destiny -- The American Mediterranean -- The American sugar kingdom -- Twentieth-century colonialism -- The Colonial Nationalist Movement -- Castroism -- The future of the Caribbean.