Caribbean Contours

By: Sidney Wilfred Mintz (Editor), Sally Price (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 June 1985

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Stretching from the Bahamas in the north to the Guianas on the South American mainland, the societies of the Caribbean have been shaped over time be the contirbutions of many peoples--the region's originial Amerindian inhabitants; colonists from Spain, England, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark; men and women from hundreds of African societies who were imported as slaves; and the contract laborers who were later brought from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

In Caribbean Contours eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.

From a United States perspective, the eople of the Caribbean are at once familiar and foreign--an everyday presence in the lives of many urban Americans on the one hand, representatives of exotic worlds for millions of American tourists on the other. This volume is intended to provide some of the essential facts underlying both the unity and diversity of Caribbean scieties, and thus to contirbute to an understanding of the region's increasing importance in the modern world.

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""This book is truly pan-Caribbean in scope and approach... The contributors, who know the region well and are generally leading scholars in their field, succeed in surveying diverse aspects of Caribbean life with sensitivity, erudition, and a proper respect for the complexity of theirsubject.""

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Politics & Government

Introduction	p. 3
A Political Profile of the Caribbean	p. 13
"Race" and Color in the Caribbean	p. 55
Sugar in the Caribbean: Turning Sunshine into Money	p. 85
From Plantations to Peasantries in the Caribbean	p. 127
A Linguistic Perspective on the Caribbean	p. 155
The Caribbean as a Musical Region	p. 181
The Contemporary Caribbean: A General Overview	p. 219
Notes on the Contributors	p. 251
List of Books in the Series	p. 253
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