Caribbean Patterns: A Political and Economic Study of the Contemporary Caribbean - Softcover

Sir Harold Mitchell Bt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470611650 ISBN 13: 9780470611654

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1972

Synopsis

Caribbean, Patterns covers Cuba. Haiti. the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico together with the Commonwealth, French and Netherlands islands The three Guianas. British Honduras and the Bahamas have also been included since their links with the Caribbean are so strong. In addition, the different attitudes of Europe. Canada. the United States and Latin America to the Caribbean are examined The Caribbean of our day presents forms of post-colonial development which are unique in their diversity: in no other small area of the world have more experiments, successful or otherwise. been made Published in 1967. Caribbean Patterns was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. In this second edition over 30,000 words about one-fifth of the original book-have been added or rewritten to cover the events and changes of the intervening five years. Among the new material is an evaluation of the progress of the Castro regime in Cuba, and that of the Duvaliers in Haiti and Balaguer in the Dominican Republic. In the Commonwealth Caribbean Sir Harold assesses the first decade of independence. discussing the Anguilla affair and such matters as CARIFTA, population and unemployment. The text is illustrated with 84 photographs and one large and five smaller maps in colour. The bibliography has been considerably extended.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0470611650
• ISBN 13: 9780470611654
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 583