From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
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ISBN: 0394715020 / Publisher: Vintage, April 1984
Examines the political, social, and economic forces which have shaped the history of the entire West Indian area since the fifteenth century
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The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others -- separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage.
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