The Caribbean in the wider world, 1492-1992 : a regional geography /
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| Author / Creator: | Richardson, Bonham C., 1939- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xvi, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Geography of the world-economy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1153627 |
Table of Contents:
- List of maps and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1.. The creation of the Caribbean
- 2.. A colonized environment
- The physical background
- Pre-Columbian ecology
- Spanish transformations
- The great clearing
- The geographical legacy
- 3.. Plantations and their peoples to 1900
- Plantation fields and factories
- Trade, war, and politics
- Slavery and the slave trade
- Emancipation and its aftermath
- 4.. The American century
- The Caribbean rim of Central America
- Domination of the Greater Antilles
- Revolutionary Cuba and the United States
- Military intervention in the Dominican Republic
- The Grenada invasion
- The Caribbean Basin Initiative
- 5.. Economic dependency
- The agricultural dilemma: Subsistence production versus cash cropping
- Minerals
- Industry
- Tourism
- The narcotics traffic
- 6.. Human migrations
- The evolution of a regional migration tradition
- Twentieth-century migrations
- Migration's effects in the Caribbean
- The drift to Caribbean cities
- 7.. Resistance and political independence
- Resisting slavery
- The Haitian revolution
- Insurgency in the Greater Antilles
- Riots, trade unions, and political independence in the British Caribbean
- 8.. Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood
- Caribbean control of Caribbean lands
- Overcoming insularity: The regional vision
- Coping with the wider world
- "We're in nobody's backyard"
- Bibliography
- Index