Main currents in Caribbean thought
Subtitle: the historical evolution of Caribbean society in its ideological aspects, 1492-1900
By: Gordon K. Lewis ; introduction by Anthony P. Maingot.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Caribbean Area -- Civilization.
Description: "Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region's unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region's characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-364) and index.
Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. With new introd.
Table of contents: title: The sociohistorical setting; title: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : the beginnings of Caribbean thought; title: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the proslavery ideology; title: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the antislavery ideology; title: The growth of nationalist thought to 1900.