The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992

A Regional Geography

By: Bonham C. Richardson

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Paperback | 16 March 1992

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The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the region provides equivalent breadth--ranging from aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic--or harnesses so effectively elements of the past to illuminate the present.

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'A pleasure to read, Richardson's book is an important contibution to the geographical literature on the Caribbean, one which deserves to be read by all who have an interest in the region.' Caribbean Geography ' ... highly original synthesis and interpretation of regional history, regional social and economic trends, and, regional environmental issues. The book is stimulating, well-crafted and the author's style is lucid and refreshingly free from technical jargon and stodgy prose ... highly recommended.' Caribbean Review of Books

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List of maps and tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
The creation of the Caribbean	p. 1
A colonized environment	p. 13
The physical background	p. 15
Pre-Columbian ecology	p. 20
Spanish transformations	p. 24
The great clearing	p. 28
The geographical legacy	p. 34
Plantations and their peoples to 1900	p. 38
Plantation fields and factories	p. 40
Trade, war, and politics	p. 50
Slavery and the slave trade	p. 62
Emancipation and its aftermath	p. 70
The American century	p. 78
The Caribbean rim of Central America	p. 81
Domination of the Greater Antilles	p. 83
Revolutionary Cuba and the United States	p. 90
Military intervention in the Dominican Republic	p. 94
The Grenada invasion	p. 96
The Caribbean Basin Initiative	p. 101
Economic dependency	p. 106
The agricultural dilemma: Subsistence production versus cash cropping	p. 109
Minerals	p. 115
Industry	p. 120
Tourism	p. 124
The narcotics traffic	p. 127
Human migrations	p. 132
The evolution of a regional migration tradition	p. 134
Twentieth-century migrations	p. 138
Migration's effects in the Caribbean	p. 148
The drift to Caribbean cities	p. 152
Resistance and political independence	p. 158
Resisting slavery	p. 161
The Haitian revolution	p. 165
Insurgency in the Greater Antilles	p. 170
Riots, trade unions, and political independence in the British Caribbean	p. 178
Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood	p. 184
Caribbean control of Caribbean lands	p. 187
Overcoming insularity: The regional vision	p. 191
Coping with the wider world	p. 199
"We're in nobody's backyard"	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 208
Index	p. 225
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