The Caribbean - Brossura

Heuman, Gad J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340763639 ISBN 13: 9780340763636

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2006

Riassunto

Columbus "discovered" the Caribbean, not North America, and it was in the Caribbean that Amerindians first felt the effects of European steel, gunpowder, and (deadlier by far) microbes. The region became a pawn in the European struggle for empire and, later, a significant player in the developing Atlantic economy. Its economic importance rested on a substructure of African slavery, which provided labor for the numerous plantations across the region. However, slaves resisted slavery and, ultimately, the Abolitionist cause was carried successfully, initially in the British parliament and gradually elsewhere. Emancipation did not provide solutions to the ancillary ills of servitude--poverty, exploitation, inequality--and protest and resistance to colonial rule (whether British, Spanish, French, Dutch, or Danish) continued. In the twentieth century, the United States largely replaced the old European powers as the dominant players in the area, and sought to intervene when it perceived its interests were threatened.

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Recensione:

Heuman, then, has managed to write a history of the Caribbean that does justice to its enormous diversity. He has brought the history to life not only by including visual illustrations but also by providing quotes from primary sources. This and the suggestions for further reading , which include primary sources and the monthly list of new publications on H-Caribbean (http://www.h-net.org/~carib/), make it a very student-friendly book.

--Henrice Altink - Reviews in History

L'autore:

Gad Heuman is Professor of History and editor of the journal Slavery & Abolition and has served as Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340763639
• ISBN 13: 9780340763636
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224