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From Columbus To Castro: The History Of The Caribbean 1492-1969
by Eric Williams

Publication Date: Apr 12, 1984
List Price: $20.00
Format: Paperback, 608 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780394715025
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Paperback Description:

From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.



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