Freedom roots : histories from the Caribbean / Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits.

By:

Dubois, Laurent, 1971- [Author]

Contributor(s):

Turits, Richard Lee []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469653624

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F1621 .F744 2019

Online resources:

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Contents:

The indigenous Caribbean -- The worlds of the plantations -- Emancipation and the rooting of freedom -- Occupation: U.S. empire and the independent Caribbean -- Insurrection: 1950s Cuba -- Revolution and intervention: Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- Reform: Jamaica, Grenada, and Haiti -- Epilogue: Caribbean futures.

Subject: "For centuries, the Caribbean has been centered in the crosscurrents of global transformations. From the emergence of racial slavery and plantation agriculture to foreign military occupation and radical interventions, the Atlantic world has been deeply shaped by European and U.S. imperialism. But the Caribbean is also a place where people--through contestation, innovation, global migration, and some of history's most dramatic revolutions--have created alternatives to those imposed by their rulers"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Caribbean pasts -- The indigenous Caribbean -- The worlds of the plantations -- Emancipation and the rooting of freedom -- Occupation: U.S. empire and the independent Caribbean -- Insurrection: 1950s Cuba -- Revolution and intervention: Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- Reform: Jamaica, Grenada, and Haiti -- Epilogue: Caribbean futures.

"For centuries, the Caribbean has been centered in the crosscurrents of global transformations. From the emergence of racial slavery and plantation agriculture to foreign military occupation and radical interventions, the Atlantic world has been deeply shaped by European and U.S. imperialism. But the Caribbean is also a place where people--through contestation, innovation, global migration, and some of history's most dramatic revolutions--have created alternatives to those imposed by their rulers"--

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