- ISBN13: 9780452281936
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Product DescriptionThe first complete history of the islands of the Caribbean – updated until 2000. The overall volume with the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. A brief history of the footprints of the Caribbean people and events that have shaped this region is constantly changing, which covers everything from the booms and busts to epidemics, wars and revolutions, and give life to such prominent figures as Sir Francis Drake , Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, Duvalier, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands. . . More>>
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present