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　　The first complete history of the Caribbean islands--updated

through the year 2000.

This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through

more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with

Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the

Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this

constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic

booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing

to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard,

Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and

Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new

chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic,

and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship.

Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the

ideal guide to the region and its people.

"A veritable sourcebook of information . . . analysis,

de*ion, interpretation . . . interesting and useful."--Library

Journal

List of Tables

List of Maps

Preface

PART ONE

THE CARIBBEAN UNDER SPANISH RULE

　1 THE ENDURING ENVIRONMENT　AND THE FIRST ISLANDERS

　2 DISCOVERY OF  THE  ISLAND5

　3 PIRATES FIGHT FOR .SPANISH GOLD

　4 SPAIN'S CARIBBEAN COLONIES

PART TWO NORTHERN EUROPEAN5 COME TO STAY

　5 THE  DUTCH  EMPIRE

　6 SETTLEMENT OF  THE  LESSER ANTILLES

　7 THE BUCCANEERS OF JAMICA,SAINT-DOMINGUE. AND  THE 

BAHAMAS

　8 WAR AND PIRACY, 1665-1720

PART THREE THE .SUGAR EMPIRE

　9 SUGAR  RULES  THE  ISLANDS

　1O THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES

　11 ENGLAND AND  FRANCE  STRUGGLE TO CONTROL THE

ISLANDS

　12 RUNAWAYS AND RERFI S

　……

Index

　　A freelance writer specializing in historical and technical

subjects, Jan Rogozinski holds a Ph.D. in social and cultural

history from Princeton University.

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The first complete history of the Caribbean islands--updated through the year 2000.

This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

This superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps, charts, tables, and photographs, it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people.

"A veritable sourcebook of information . . . analysis, description, interpretation . . . interesting and useful."--Library Journal