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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Island people
    sub title: the Caribbean and the world
  name:
    name part: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 451 pages : map ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In this masterwork of travel literature and of history, writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro voyages from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados and to islands in between, giving us a rich portrait of each society, its culture and politics, while connecting the Caribbean's common heritage to its fierce grip on the world's imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders, who have plundered these islands and exoticized their inhabitants. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than 300 years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world, its politics, religion, economics, music and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands' inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this "place where globalization began" and introduces us to its forty million people who continue decisively to shape our world.
  table of contents: The Greater Antilles. Jamaica : the wages of love. Branding ; Badness ; Redemption songs -- Cuba Libre. Cuba sí ; Cuban counterparts ; Autumn of the patriarch -- On Puerto Rico. Boricua and the Bronx -- Hispaniola : mountains beyond mountains. The Massacre River ; The Citadel ; Haiti cherie -- The Lesser Antilles. Sea of islands. Heading south (Cayman, Barbados, Grenada, Barbuda, Montserrat, Antigua) ; Au Pays Natal : on Martinique (and Guadeloupe) ; The last of the Carib : Dominica ; Return to El Dorado : Trinidad.
  note: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
  note: "A Borzoi book."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: cc-----
  subject:
    geographic: Caribbean Area
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Caribbean Area
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Caribbean Area
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    topic: Caribbean & West Indies
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Caribbean & West Indies
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL / Caribbean & West Indies
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  classification: F2169 .J45 2016
  classification: 972.9
  identifier: 9780385349765
  identifier: 0385349769
  identifier: 9780385349772
  identifier: 2016027814
  identifier: 2016010673
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160613
    record change date: 20170102170009.0
    record identifier: in00003714796