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The Caribbean : a history of the region and its peoples /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Palmié, Stephan, Scarano, Francisco A. (Francisco Antonio)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Caribbean Area > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Caribbean stage
  • Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker
  • Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor
  • The earliest settlers / Antonio Curet
  • Old world precedents: sugar and slavery in the Mediterranean / William D. Phillips Jr
  • The making of a colonial sphere
  • The columbian moment: politics, ideology, and biohistory / Reinaldo Funes Monzote
  • From tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: labor, migration, and resistance / Jalil Sued-Badillo
  • Negotiations of conquest / Lynne A. Guitar
  • Toward sugar and slavery / Stephan Palmié
  • Masterless people: maroons, pirates, and commoners / Isaac Curtis
  • Colonial designs in flux
  • The Caribbean between empires: colonists, pirates, and slaves / Josep M. Fradera
  • Imperial decline, colonial adaptation: the Spanish islands during the long 17th century / Francisco A. Scarano
  • The Atlantic framework of 17th-century colonization / Alison Games
  • Servants and slaves during the 17th-century sugar revolution / Hilary Mcd. Beckles
  • The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600-1800 / Philip Boucher
  • Slaves and tropical commodities: the Caribbean in the south Atlantic system / Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel
  • Capitalism, slavery, and revolution
  • Slave cultures: systems of domination and forms of resistance / Philip Morgan
  • Rivalry, war, and imperial reform in the 18th-century Caribbean / Douglas Hamilton
  • The Haitian revolution / Laurent Dubois
  • The abolition of slavery in the non-hispanic Caribbean / Diana Paton
  • Econocide?: from abolition to emancipation in the British and French Caribbean / Dale Tomich
  • Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition / Jean Besson
  • A reordered world
  • A second slavery? the 19th-century sugar revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
  • Peasants, immigrants, and workers: the British and French Caribbean after emancipation / Gad Heuman
  • War and nation building: Cuban and Dominican experiences / Robert Whitney
  • The rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846-1905 / Luis Martínez-Fernández
  • The conundrum of race: retooling inequality / Elizabeth Cooper
  • Africa, Europe, and Asia in the making of the 20th-century Caribbean / Aisha Khan
  • The new empire
  • Building US hegemony in the Caribbean / Brenda Gayle Plummer
  • The American sugar kingdom, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala
  • Culture, labor, and race in the shadow of US capital / Winston James
  • Labor protests, rebellions, and the rise of nationalism during depression and war / O. Nigel Bolland
  • Toward decolonization: impulses, processes, and consequences since the 1930s / Anne S. Macpherson
  • The Caribbean and the cold war: between reform and revolution / David Sheinin
  • The Caribbean in the age of globalization
  • The long Cuban revolution / Michael Zeuske
  • Independence and its aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica / Anthony P. Maingot
  • The colonial persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles / Humberto García Muñiz
  • An island in the mirror: the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Pedro L. San Miguel
  • Tourism, drugs, offshore finance, and the perils of neoliberal development / Robert Goddard
  • Caribbean migrations and diasporas / Christine M. Du Bois.