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Emmer, Pieter C., ed. General History of the Caribbean. London: UNESCO Publishing 1999. Floyd, Troy S. The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1973. Healy, David. Drive to hegemony: the United States in the Caribbean, 1898-1917 (1988). Higman, Barry W. A concise history of the Caribbean ...
In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in the decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between Communist Cuba and the United States (U.S.). Genocide, slavery, immigration and rivalry between world powers have given Caribbean history an impact disproportionate to the size of this small ...
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining the crop. The main source of labor, until the abolition of chattel slavery, was enslaved Africans.
The Working Group convened by the Director-General of UNESCO in Paris in 1981 to begin work on the project of writing a General History of the Caribbean – separately from the General History of Latin America. In conjunction with the Working Group and broad consultation carried out by the Regional Offices in Latin America and the Caribbean, a ...
How exactly humans expanded into the Caribbean islands has long been a mystery, according to a study. Ruins of 5,600-year-old shelter upend history of Caribbean island, study reveals Skip to main ...
History of the Bahamas; History of Barbados; Batey (game) Battle of La Guaira (1812) The Black Jacobins; British America; British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939; History of the British West Indies; British West Indies dollar
Cromwell, Jesse. "More than Slaves and Sugar: Recent Historiography of the Trans-imperial Caribbean and Its Sinew Populations". History Compass (2014) 12#10 pp 770–783. Higman, Barry W. A Concise History of the Caribbean. (2011) Jones, Alfred Lewis (1905). "The West Indies" . The Empire and the century. London: John Murray. pp. 877– 882.
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