A concise history of the Caribbean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780521043489
Table of contents: title: A history of islands -- Ancient archipelago, 7200 bp-ad 1492. First peoples -- Second wave -- Complex societies -- Spirit worlds -- Disruption -- Columbian cataclysm, 1492-1630. First encounters -- Early models of colonization -- Taino response -- A second sixteenth century -- Conflict and competition -- Plantation peoples, 1630-1770. The sugar revolution -- War and peace -- Government -- Slavery and the people trade -- Population -- Slave society or Creole society? -- Rebels and revolutionaries, 1770-1870. Resistance and rebellion in slave societies -- Revolution in St Domingue -- Other abolitions -- Demographic change -- Labour and land -- Trading places -- Society -- Government or politics? Democrats and dictators, 1870-1945. Imperialism remade -- New models of government growth -- Population and labour -- Exploiting the land -- Trade, transport, travel -- Social and cultural change -- The Caribbean since 1945. Revolution in Cuba -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic -- Decolonization -- People on the move -- Economic development -- Equality and inequality -- Food, clothing, shelter -- Creolization versus globalization -- Canoe, caravel, container ship.