-Caribbean History

Altlantic Interactions has been written specifically to satisfy the syllabus requirements of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) history syllabus and in particular Unit II, The Atlantic World and Global Interactions. The requirements of the unit have been adhered to as closely as possible and students are provided with a variety of end-of-chapter activities to aid understanding of the topics. Each chapter contains document-based questions, short-response questions and suggestions for further reading, in addition to a list of references. There is also a 'things to consider' section which is designed to sharpen students' inquiry skills and encourage reflection on the current state of historical thought and research.

This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The range of coverage is comprehensive calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean. Three broad themes are identified: • the slow disintegration of the slave system which was not completed until 1886; • the attempts by resistant social groups and imperial agencies to accept and adjust to freedom; and • the maturing of nationalist consciousness in terms of constitutional and cultural independence. Among the areas covered under these themes are popular revolts and aborted revolutions; the sugar industry and economic diversification; peasants and planters; immigration from Europe, India and China; the role of women; labour movements; independence and nationhood.

Peter Drewett's comprehensive survey explores every stage of the dig process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product: the published archaeological report.

Main topics covered are:

• how an archaeological site is formed
• finding and recording archaeological sites
• planning excavations, digging the site and recording the results
• post-fieldwork planning, processing and finds analysis
• interpreting the evidence
• publishing the report.

Illustrated with 100 photographs and line drawings, and using numerous case studies, Field Archaeology is the essential introductory guide for archaeology students, and is certain to be welcomed by the growing number of enthusiasts for the subject.

Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora was borne out of the June 2006 conference Caribbean Migration: Forced and Free . It explores the contemporary nature of migration, the socio-economic, political and cultural impact of movements across and outside the Caribbean region. The collection highlights and examines varying discourses on race, transnationalism and the emerging concept of Diaspora , providing insight for the academic, decision maker, student or anyone interested in migration studies. This volume represents the experience of the entire Caribbean region, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch presented by authors from across the region. It unequivocally offers a unique perspective on current issues related to movement and resettlement and all the surrounding issues.

Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Freedoms Won is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be of interest to general readers seeking information on the history of the region. Starting with the aftermath of emancipation, Freedoms Won covers the African-Caribbean peasantry, Asian arrival in the Caribbean, social and political experiences of the working classes in the immediate post-slavery period, the Caribbean economy, US intervention and imperialst tendencies from the 18th century, the Labour Movement in the Caribbean in the 20th centurym the social life and culture of the Caribbean people, and social protest, decolonisation and nationhood.

This book sets out for the general reader and student alike the peculiar features of the post emancipation condition of the formerly enslaved community in Barbados. It was here on this small island of 166 square miles that tens of thousands of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean first experienced the full brutality of the sugar plantation. It was here also, in this incubator of chattel slavery, that Africans received the worst possible emancipation deal the Caribbean, if not the Americas. Barbados, the first black majority slave plantation society in the New World, remained structurally unaltered by the powerful source for change that was unleashed on August 1st 1838 – emancipation day. Here, an unrelenting landless freedom was imposed upon the blacks whose conditions of work and life remained largely unchanged for a century on plantations that produced more sugar with less labour for below subsistence wages.

In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies―with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model.

Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Liberties Lost is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be of interest to general readers seeking information on the history of the region. Starting with indigenous societies, Liberties Lost covers Europe's Caribbean project, European settlement and rivalry, the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; sugar and slavery; African culture and community life; revolt and resistance and, finally, Caribbean emancipation.

"Paradise Overseas" presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits a refreshing analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative framework which will be of interest to historians, anthropologists and political scientists alike. Rather than aiming at a comprehensive narrative, he offers a thematic discussion of topics such as the contrasts between Dutch colonization in the Americas and Asia; African slavery, Asian indentured labour and the shaping of plural societies in the Dutch Caribbean; the major contrasts between and within the six Antillean islands and Suriname; the different trajectories of decolonisation and their subsequent costs and benefits; and the changing significance of ethnicity and national identity both in the Dutch Caribbean and its diaspora.