The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional GeographyCambridge University Press, 16 janv. 1992 - 235 pages 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 As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States.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. |
Table des matières
The creation of the Caribbean | 1 |
A colonized environment | 13 |
The physical background | 15 |
PreColumbian ecology | 20 |
Spanish transformations | 24 |
The great clearing | 28 |
The geographical legacy | 34 |
Plantations and their peoples to 1900 | 38 |
Industry | 120 |
Tourism | 124 |
The narcotics traffic | 127 |
Human migrations | 132 |
The evolution of a regional migration tradition | 134 |
Twentiethcentury migrations | 138 |
Migrations effects in the Caribbean | 148 |
The drift to Caribbean cities | 152 |
Plantation fields and factories | 40 |
Trade war and politics | 50 |
Slavery and the slave trade | 62 |
Emancipation and its aftermath | 70 |
The American century | 78 |
The Caribbean rim of Central America | 81 |
Domination of the Greater Antilles | 83 |
Revolutionary Cuba and the United States | 90 |
Military intervention in the Dominican Republic | 94 |
The Grenada invasion | 96 |
The Caribbean Basin Initiative | 101 |
Economic dependency | 106 |
Subsistence production versus cash cropping | 109 |
Minerals | 115 |
Resistance and political independence | 158 |
Resisting slavery | 161 |
The Haitian revolution | 165 |
Insurgency in the Greater Antilles | 170 |
Riots trade unions and political independence in the British Caribbean | 178 |
Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood | 184 |
Caribbean control of Caribbean lands | 187 |
The regional vision | 191 |
Coping with the wider world | 199 |
Were in nobodys backyard | 205 |
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