Island Dreams:Caribbean Cl

by Tapper,Joan

• ISBN13: 9780500512364
• ISBN10: 0500512361
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-17
• Publisher: THAMES&HUD

Summary

"Columbus 'discovered' the Caribbean, not North America, and it was in the Caribbean that the 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 labour for the numerous plantations across the region. However, slaves resisted slavery and, ultimately, the Abolitionist cause was carried successfully in the British parliament and gradually elsewhere." "Gad Heuman is an expert guide to this history, dwelling not only on the political and social struggles but providing also a sense of the development and flowering of Caribbean culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gad J. Heuman is a Professor of History and has served as Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

The Amerindians and European patterns of settlement	p. 1
Sugar and slavery	p. 11
Slavery, work and the slaves' economy	p. 22
Neither black nor white	p. 34
The world the planters made	p. 45
Slave resistance : Africans, Maroons and women	p. 55
The Haitian revolution	p. 67
The abolition debates	p. 78
Race, racism and equality	p. 88
From slavery to freedom	p. 96
Riots and resistance in the aftermath of emancipation	p. 107
The Africanization of the Caribbean	p. 119
The American century	p. 129
Labour protests and the 1930s	p. 139
The revolutionary Caribbean	p. 149
Contemporary themes	p. 161
The cultures of the Caribbean	p. 173
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