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History of the Caribbean (Hardcover)
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History of the Caribbean (Hardcover)
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From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the
1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a
lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas --
brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a
fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and
the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigenous
populations and then imported Africans, and led to bloody wars on
both sides of the Atlantic over control of the lucrative sugar
market. In this comprehensive volume, Frank 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 to 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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