A Concise History of the Caribbean

By B. W. Higman | Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. Patterns of colonisation and the development of slave societies are linked to the ethnic and cultural features of the region, and to the process of creolisation.

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Hardcover
ISBN 9781108480987
Paperback
ISBN 9781108703680

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A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. Patterns of colonisation and the development of slave societies are linked to the ethnic and cultural features of the region, and to the process of creolisation.

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A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. Patterns of colonisation and the development of slave societies are linked to the ethnic and cultural features of the region, and to the process of creolisation.

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History and Archaeology > History > General and world history

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B. W. Higman

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Cambridge University Press

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A Concise History of the Caribbean is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781108480987) and paperback(ISBN 9781108703680)

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