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This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492.
A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people.
About the Author
Jan Rogozinski is the author of Caste, Power, and Law: Social Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Montpellier; Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean; and A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. He earned an MA and a PhD from Princeton University, and has taught history courses at universities in Cambridge, Chicago, Miami, and New York. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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