The Caribbean
Subtitle: a history of the region and its peoples
By: edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780226645063; 9780226645087
Subjects: History
Description: This book traces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of U.S. hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century. It begins with a discussion of the region's diverse geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at the transatlantic slave trade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 611-624) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Caribbean stage; title: Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker; title: Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor; title: The earliest settlers / Antonio Curet; title: Old world precedents: sugar and slavery in the Mediterranean / William D. Phillips Jr; title: The making of a colonial sphere; title: The columbian moment: politics, ideology, and biohistory / Reinaldo Funes Monzote; title: From tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: labor, migration, and resistance / Jalil Sued-Badillo; title: Negotiations of conquest / Lynne A. Guitar; title: Toward sugar and slavery / Stephan Palmié; title: Masterless people: maroons, pirates, and commoners / Isaac Curtis; title: Colonial designs in flux; title: The Caribbean between empires: colonists, pirates, and slaves / Josep M. Fradera; title: Imperial decline, colonial adaptation: the Spanish islands during the long 17th century / Francisco A. Scarano; title: The Atlantic framework of 17th-century colonization / Alison Games; title: Servants and slaves during the 17th-century sugar revolution / Hilary Mcd. Beckles; title: The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600-1800 / Philip Boucher; title: Slaves and tropical commodities: the Caribbean in the south Atlantic system / Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel; title: Capitalism, slavery, and revolution; title: Slave cultures: systems of domination and forms of resistance / Philip Morgan; title: Rivalry, war, and imperial reform in the 18th-century Caribbean / Douglas Hamilton; title: The Haitian revolution / Laurent Dubois; title: The abolition of slavery in the non-hispanic Caribbean / Diana Paton; title: Econocide?: from abolition to emancipation in the British and French Caribbean / Dale Tomich; title: Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition / Jean Besson; title: A reordered world; title: A second slavery? the 19th-century sugar revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara; title: Peasants, immigrants, and workers: the British and French Caribbean after emancipation / Gad Heuman; title: War and nation building: Cuban and Dominican experiences / Robert Whitney; title: The rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846-1905 / Luis Martínez-Fernández; title: The conundrum of race: retooling inequality / Elizabeth Cooper; title: Africa, Europe, and Asia in the making of the 20th-century Caribbean / Aisha Khan; title: The new empire; title: Building US hegemony in the Caribbean / Brenda Gayle Plummer; title: The American sugar kingdom, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala; title: Culture, labor, and race in the shadow of US capital / Winston James; title: Labor protests, rebellions, and the rise of nationalism during depression and war / O. Nigel Bolland; title: Toward decolonization: impulses, processes, and consequences since the 1930s / Anne S. Macpherson; title: The Caribbean and the cold war: between reform and revolution / David Sheinin; title: The Caribbean in the age of globalization; title: The long Cuban revolution / Michael Zeuske; title: Independence and its aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica / Anthony P. Maingot; title: The colonial persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles / Humberto García Muñiz; title: An island in the mirror: the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Pedro L. San Miguel; title: Tourism, drugs, offshore finance, and the perils of neoliberal development / Robert Goddard; title: Caribbean migrations and diasporas / Christine M. Du Bois.