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Item Details
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CARIBBEAN
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| By: |
Gad Heuman |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0340763639 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780340763636 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
26 May, 2006 |
| Series: |
Brief Histories |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, 1 map |
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