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Freedom roots : histories from the Caribbean / Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubois, Laurent, 1971- author.
- Turits, Richard Lee, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean Area--History.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--Foreign relations.
- Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Caribbean Area--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'To tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world,' write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence.
- Contents:
- Caribbean pasts
- The indigenous Caribbean
- The worlds of the plantations
- Emancipation and the rooting of freedom
- Occupation: U.S. empire and the independent Caribbean
- Insurrection: 1950s Cuba
- Revolution and intervention: Cuba and the Dominican Republic
- Reform: Jamaica, Grenada, and Haiti
- Epilogue: Caribbean futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908772-4-6
- 979-88-908772-5-3
- 1-4696-5362-1
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