General History of the Caribbean Unesco - The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Bridget Brereton is Professor of History at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad. Klappentext Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic! political! religious! social and cultural history of this period brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures! including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women. Zusammenfassung Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic, political, religious, social and cultural history of this period brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.

Product details

• Authors: Bridget Brereton, Bridget Na Brereton, NA NA
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781403975935
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7593-5
• No. of pages: 831
• Series: General History of the Caribbe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Culture, Cultural Studies, Social History, Social and cultural history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Palgrave History Collection, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America