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000741175 1001_ $$aGibson, Carrie,$$d1976-$$eauthor.
000741175 24510 $$aEmpire's crossroads :$$ba history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day /$$cCarrie Gibson.
000741175 2463_ $$aHistory of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day
000741175 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bAtlantic Monthly Press :$$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$$c2014.
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000741175 300__ $$axxviii, 447 pages :$$billustrations (some color), maps ;$$c24 cm
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000741175 500__ $$a"First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.
000741175 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 369-420) and index.
000741175 5050_ $$aA passage to the Indies -- Stepping stones to the New World -- Pirates and Protestants -- Sugar -- The rise of slavery -- A world at war -- Haiti, or, The beginning of the end -- Cuba and the contradictions of freedom -- Banana wars and global battles -- The road to independence -- The Cold War in the tropics -- Island life -- Import/export -- Invented paradise.
000741175 520__ $$aTraces the story of the coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, exploring its history from the arrival of Columbus through colonialism to the present, offering a panoramic view of this complex region.
000741175 520__ $$aIn October 1492, an Italian-born, Spanish-funded navigator discovered a new world, thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson, unfolds the story of the Caribbean, from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands-- largely independent, but often still in thrall to Europe and America's insatiable desire for tropical luxuries. From the early years of settlement to the age of sugar and slavery, during which vast riches were generated for Europeans through the enforced labour of millions of enslaved Africans, to the great slave rebellions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the long, slow progress towards independence in the modern era, Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this complex and contradictory region. From Cuba to Haiti, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters, but of fortune-seekers, tourists, scientists and pirates. It is not only a story of imperial expansion-- European and American-- but also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.
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