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History of the Caribbean (Paperback)
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From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the
1930s, plantations brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners
and led to bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control
of the lucrative sugar market.In this comprehensive volume, Moya
Pons explores the history, context, and consequences of the major
changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing
and the Great Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial
ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in
the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave
revolts and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners
not as a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive
interruption of their profit flow. ""History of the Caribbean""
traces the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources
transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth
and then into some of the poorest.This book intertwines the
socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a
captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and
provide new insights for specialists.
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