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A Brief History of the Caribbean : From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
A Brief History of the Caribbean From the Arawak and Carib to the Present Author:Jan Rogonzinski The first complete history of the Caribbean islands--updated through the year 2000.This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this c... more »onstantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people."A veritable sourcebook of information . . . analysis, description, interpretation . . . interesting and useful."--Library Journal« less
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