Lc Classification Number
F2175.C325 2011
Reviews
The editors of this volume have successfully assembled a survey of historical and contemporary issues which serves as an excellent introductory text for newcomers to the region, as well as a resource for more experienced researchers searching for a concise reference to any historical period., Studies that treat the Caribbean as a unified region, although relatively few in number, have been of extraordinary importance in understanding the basic characteristics of the region's singularly unusual history and inordinately complex culture. . . . The authors, primarily drawn from the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, archaeology, geography and geology, are uniformly outstanding and are highly respected scholars in their fields., This is a remarkable and admirably ambitious collection. The span is overwhelming, for it reaches from physiography and indigenous settlement to today's economics and politics. . . . The Caribbean: A History of the Region and its Peoples will enable just about any reader--student, scholar, layperson--to learn more about this anciently Europeanized part of the world than he or she knew before., A welcome collection of state-of-the-art contributions by prominent scholars of the Caribbean, discussing a broad range of topics from pre-Columbian cultures via plantation slavery and decolonization to the Caribbean diaspora. . . . An excellent and highly readable textbook, surely recommended for teaching Caribbean history., This collection provides an engaging introduction to the history of a region defined by centuries of colonial domination and popular struggle. In these essays readers will recognize the Caribbean as a garden of social catastrophe and a grim incubator of modern global capitalism, as well as of people's continuous attempts to resist, endure, or adapt to it. Scholars and students will find it to be a very useful handbook for current thinking on a vital topic., The editors of this volume have successfully assembled a survey of historical and contemporary issues which serves as an excellent introductory text for newcomers to the region, as well as a resource for more experienced researchers searching for a concise reference to any historical period., This collection provides an engaging introduction to the history of a region defined by centuries of colonial domination and popular struggle. In these essays readers will recognize the Caribbean as a garden of social catastrophe and a grim incubator of modern global capitalism, as well as of people's continuous attempts to resist, endure, or adapt to it. Scholars and students will find it to be a very useful handbook for current thinking on a vital topic., A welcome collection of state-of-the-art contributions by prominent scholars of the Caribbean, discussing a broad range of topics from pre-Columbian cultures via plantation slavery and decolonization to the Caribbean diaspora. . . . An excellent and highly readable textbook, surely recommended for teaching Caribbean history., This is a remarkable and admirably ambitious collection. The span is overwhelming, for it reaches from physiography and indigenous settlement to today's economics and politics. . . . The Caribbean: A History of the Region and its Peoples will enable just about any reader-student, scholar, layperson-to learn more about this anciently Europeanized part of the world than he or she knew before.
Publication Name
Caribbean : a History of the Region and Its Peoples
Table of Content
General Maps Introduction: Caribbean Counterpoints PART 1 THE CARIBBEAN STAGE 1 Geographies of Opportunity, Geographies of Constraint David Barker 2 Contemporary Caribbean Ecologies: The Weight of History Duncan McGregor 3 The Earliest Settlers L. Antonio Curet 4 Old World Precedents: Sugar and Slavery in the Mediterranean William D. Phillips Jr. PART 2 THE MAKING OF A COLONIAL SPHERE 5 The Columbian Moment: Politics, Ideology, and Biohistory Reinaldo Funes Monzote 6 From Tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: Labor, Migration, and Resistance Jalil Sued- Badillo 7 Negotiations of Conquest Lynne A. Guitar 8 Toward Sugar and Slavery Stephan Palmié 9 Masterless People: Maroons, Pirates, and Commoners Isaac Curtis PART 3 COLONIAL DESIGNS IN FLUX 10 The Caribbean between Empires: Colonists, Pirates, and Slaves Josep M. Fradera 11 Imperial Decline, Colonial Adaptation: The Spanish Islands during the Long 17th Century Francisco A. Scarano 12 The Atlantic Framework of 17th- Century Colonization Alison Games 13 Servants and Slaves during the 17th- Century Sugar Revolution Hilary McD. Beckles 14 The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600- 1800 Philip Boucher 15 Slaves and Tropical Commodities: The Caribbean in the South Atlantic System Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel PART 4 CAPITALISM, SLAVERY, AND REVOLUTION 16 Slave Cultures: Systems of Domination and Forms of Resistance Philip Morgan 17 Rivalry, War, and Imperial Reform in the 18th- Century Caribbean Douglas Hamilton 18 The Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois 19 The Abolition of Slavery in the Non- Hispanic Caribbean Diana Paton 20 Econocide? From Abolition to Emancipation in the British and French Caribbean Dale Tomich 21 Missionaries, Planters, and Slaves in the Age of Abolition Jean Besson PART 5 A REORDERED WORLD 22 A Second Slavery? The 19th- Century Sugar Revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico Christopher Schmidt- Nowara 23 Peasants, Immigrants, and Workers: The British and French Caribbean after Emancipation Gad Heuman 24 War and Nation Building: Cuban and Dominican Experiences Robert Whitney 25 The Rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846- 1905 Luis Martínez- Fernández 26 The Conundrum of Race: Retooling Inequality Elizabeth Cooper 27 Africa, Europe, and Asia in the Making of the 20th- Century Caribbean Aisha Khan PART 6 THE NEW EMPIRE 28 Building US Hegemony in the Caribbean Brenda Gayle Plummer 29 The American Sugar Kingdom, 1898- 1934 César J. Ayala 30 Culture, Labor, and Race in the Shadow of US Capital Winston James 31 Labor Protests, Rebellions, and the Rise of Nationalism during Depression and War O. Nigel Bolland 32 Toward Decolonization: Impulses, Processes, and Consequences since the 1930s Anne S. Macpherson 33 The Caribbean and the Cold War: Between Reform and Revolution David Sheinin PART 7 THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION 34 The Long Cuban Revolution Michael Zeuske 35 Independence and Its Aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica Anthony P. Maingot 36 The Colonial Persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles Humberto García Muñiz 37 An Island in the Mirror: The Dominican Republic and Haiti Pedro L. San Miguel 38 Tourism, Drugs, Off shore Finance, and the Perils of Neoliberal Development Robert Goddard 39 Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas Christine M. Du Bois Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-012778
Dewey Decimal
972.9
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
