The Caribbean in the wider world, 1492-1992 : a regional geography /
This major textbook survey, first published in 1992, explains how the Caribbean's present geography is intimately tied to the past. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African sl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Geography of the world-economy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The creation of the Caribbean 1
- 2. A colonized environment 13
- 3. Plantations and their peoples to 1900 38
- 4. The American century 78
- 5. Economic dependency 106
- 6. Human migrations 132
- 7. Resistance and political independence 158
- 8. Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood 184.
