| 1. |  | A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present from Plume Price: $9.83 Customer Review:  Well written account of Caribbean history covering the basics and not being to exhaustive for the average reader. Historical subjects are covered with sensitivity to the current state of the Caribbean self identity. |
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| 2. |  | Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) from Bedford/St. Martin's Price: $11.00 Customer Review: I purchased this book for college coursework in a core history class. We were assigned a paper on the book. Other people in my class did some outside research, but there was enough information between the text and all the source documents that I didn't find outside sources necessary. |
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| 3. |  | From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 from Vintage Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  While the book is impressive in its collection of statistical data, it's short on portraying an engaging history of the area. Yes, sugar--and therefore slavery--are hallmarks of Caribbean history. Yes, colonial powers used their colonies (Caribbean and otherwise) for the benefit of the home country... |
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| 4. |  | History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World from Markus Wiener Publishers Price: $89.95 Customer Review:  This is a scholarly but thank goodness an extremely well-written book. Its author Professor Frank Moya Pons is recognized as "the most widely read historian of the Dominican Republic." Deeply steeped in the history of the Caribbean, his love for the region is quite evident. This comprehensive... |
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| 5. |  | A Traveller's History of the Caribbean from Interlink Books Price: $8.79 Customer Review: In spite of its title, this fine book is simply a comprehensive history of the West Indies. There is scant mention of the wider, mainland Caribbean, and it's not just for travelers. That said, it is an authoritative, complete history of the area, in my view the best there is. I would like to think... |
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| 6. |  | Myths and Realities of Caribbean History (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory) from University Alabama Press Price: $11.96 Customer Review: This scholarly book uses a "MythBusters" format to discuss what is known about the history of the Caribbean up to and including the time when Columbus landed. Don't panic because of the word scholarly. While it probably has a couple hundred references throughout, this book is still totally... |
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| 7. |  | Caribbean Houses: History, Style, and Architecture from Rizzoli Price: $37.77 Customer Review: I have all of Michael Connors Caribbean Books. This one is fabulous! The historical accounts, photographs and attention to detail are superb. Some years ago I met the very interesting Michael Connors in NYC at his antique store; he was receptive to intelligent inquiry, yet impatient with the... |
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| 8. |  | The Caribbean (Brief Histories) from Bloomsbury USA Price: $25.86 | |
| 9. |  | Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History from University Press of Florida Price: $59.95 Customer Review: A work that epoch, when addressing a topic that is little appreciated by many historians, and offer a model for addressing the same theme in other regions and other alcoholic beverages |
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| 10. |  | The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Latin American Histories) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $13.04 Customer Review: Knight writes like a good sociologist. His focus is signal events and social change, always well explained, with quantitative measures of scope and impact. The book is island focused -- with little attention on the Caribbean's mainland enclaves of Belize, the Guyanas, or Suriname. But it gives a... |
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