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The Caribbean History Reader

Edited by Nicola Foote

To Be Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge – 480 pages

Series: Routledge Readers in History

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Description

The Caribbean is increasingly being recognized as having been at the heart of world history and global development, despite its small geographic size. It is the lynchpin of the Atlantic economy. Further, through a series of migrations, Caribbean people have come to be represented in most of the major cities of the West, and have impacted the histories of Britain, Canada, and the United States.

The Caribbean History Reader provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of Caribbean history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. It brings together a range of classic and innovative texts, and creates an introduction to Caribbean political, economic, social and cultural currents that provides an important first reference point to scholars and students alike.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Pre-Columbian Indigenous Societies

3. First Encounters and Indigenous Resistance

4. Early European Development

5. The Development of the Sugar Industry

6. The Slave Trade

7. Slave economy, demography and the imperative of social control

8. Slave Society: Race, Class and Gender Realities

9. Slave Resistance and Maroonage

10. Haitian Revolution

11. The Abolition of Slavery/ The Disintegration of Caribbean Slave Systems

12. Cuban Independence

13. Post-Emancipation Society and Economy

14. Indentureship

15. Colonial Education and the Black Middle-Class

16. U.S. Interventions in the Early Twentieth Century

17. War, Labor and Urban Protest

18. Independence, Nationhood and Identity

19. Dictatorship and Political Repression: Trujillo and Duvalier

20. The Cuban Revolution and Its Aftermath

21. Revolutionary Currents in the English-Speaking Caribbean: Socialism and Black Power

22. Industralization, Economic Diversification, Growth and Poverty

23. Migration and Diaspora

24. Tourism

25. Popular Culture

26. Popular Religion

27. Race and Class in the Post-Colonial Era

28. Men, Women, Family, and Respectability in Postcolonial Society

29. Women and Feminisms

30. Indigenous Revival

Author Bio

Nicola Foote is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Name: The Caribbean History Reader (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Nicola Foote. The Caribbean is increasingly being recognized as having been at the heart of world history and global development, despite its small geographic size. It is the lynchpin of the Atlantic economy. Further, through a series of migrations, Caribbean people...
Categories: Social & Cultural History, Political History, African-American history, Latin American History