From Columbus to Castro: The history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 - Hardcover

Williams, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0233961631 ISBN 13: 9780233961637

Publisher: Andre Deutsch, 1970

Synopsis

From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million 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. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from their achievement of independence in 1962 until his death in 1981. He is the author of the classic Capitalism and Slavery.

Review:

"Mr. Williams is forced to write about so much greed and cruelty that it is remarkable that he keeps his temper and his perspective. He succeeds, and his practical discussion of the current state of the Caribbean is among the best of its kind...He writes better than many historians and almost all politicians."

-- The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Andre Deutsch
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0233961631
• ISBN 13: 9780233961637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576