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The Caribbean : a history of the region and its peoples / edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano.

Van Pelt Library F2175 .C325 2011
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Palmié, Stephan.
Scarano, Francisco A. (Francisco Antonio)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Caribbean Area--History.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Physical Description:
x, 660 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226645063
0226645061
9780226645087
0226645088
OCLC:
708763232

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