Caribbean Transformations

List of contents

Preface
Slavery, Forced Labor and the Plantation System
Acknowledgments
Caribbean Peasantries
Foreword to the Morningside Edition
Caribbean Nationhood
Afro-Caribbeana: An Introduction
Slavery and the Afro-American World
Slavery and Forced Labor in Puerto Rico
The History of a Puerto Rican Plantation
The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries
The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages
The Origins of the Jamaican Market System
The Contemporary Jamaican Market System
Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries
The Case of Haiti
Caribbean Nationhood: An Anthropological Perspective
References
Index

About the author

Sidney W. Mintz

Product details

• Authors: Sidney Mintz, Sidney W. Mintz, Sidney Wilfred Mintz
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1989
• EAN: 9780231071154
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07115-4
• No. of pages: 355
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous