Caribbean - A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Informationen zum Autor Stephan Palmie is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago! specializing in Afro-Caribbean cultures. He is the author of Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Francisco A. Scarano is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! specializing in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is the author of Puerto Rico: Cinco siglos de historia. Klappentext Traces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of US hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century. This volume begins with a discussion of the region's diverse geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at the transatlantic slave trade. Zusammenfassung Traces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of US hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century. This volume begins with a discussion of the region's diverse geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at the transatlantic slave trade.

Product details

• Authors: Stephan Palmie, Stephan Scarano Palmie, Stephen (EDT)/ Scarano Palmie
• Assisted by: Stephan Palmie (Editor), Stephen Palmie (Editor), Stephan Palmié (Editor), Palmie Stephan (Editor), Francisco A. Scarano (Editor), Scarano Francisco A. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780226645087
• ISBN: 978-0-226-64508-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery