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Introduction to the Pan-Caribbean.
With its diverse histories of slavery, plantations, colonialism and independence, the Caribbean is richly layered, highly complex and a wonderful example of people's resistance. The pan-Caribbean region also provides an excellent geography through which to understand and analyse the complex pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of maps; List of plates; List of boxes; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The Pan-Caribbean: diversity and semblance; Defining the Pan-Caribbean; Mapping the Caribbean; Representing the Pan-Caribbean; Notes; References; 2. Unity in diversity? A history of the Pan-Caribbean region from 1492 to the 1970s; Introduction; European colonisation; Slavery and the plantation system; Resistance and revolt; Disintegration of the slavery system; Post-slavery society.
- Post-slavery protests and political reform in the British CaribbeanHaiti and civil war; Francophone Caribbean; End of Spanish colonisation; Emigration from the Caribbean; The Caribbean and the First World War; Black consciousness between the two World Wars; Garveyism; Negritude; Labour rebellions, riots, unrests and disturbances in the 1930s; The Caribbean and the Second World War; The USA in the Caribbean after the First World War; The Cuban Revolution; Cuba and the Cold War; Economic development after the Second World War; The religious mix from the nineteenth century.
- Nation states, 1962-1970sThe West Indies Federation; Political independence; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Issues of development in the Pan-Caribbean: overcoming crises and rising to challenges?; Introduction; What is the 'development' situation within the Pan-Caribbean?; Debt in the Caribbean; Social features of development; Poverty; Sustainable development and environmental issues; Pan-Caribbean examples of development: case studies from across the region; The Independent Commonwealth Caribbean; Cuba; Haiti; The non-independent Caribbean.
- What are the possible futures for Pan-Caribbean development?Notes; References; 4. The Caribbean in a globalised world: responses to a changing international political economy; Introduction; The debate on globalisation; Globalisation and the Caribbean; Twilight zone for preferential commodity arrangements: the cases of bananas and rum; Globalisation and the offshore financial services sector; International trade negotiations: the emergence of new norms and structures; Caribbean responses to external challenges; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. Caribbean tourism: trouble in paradise?
- IntroductionTourism in the history of the Caribbean; Foreign corporations and tourism development; The role of mass tourism in Caribbean development; The lost development decade and the rise of tourism as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings; Finding niches in the global market: cruises and all-inclusives; The environmental and social impacts of mass tourism development in the 1980s; A sustainable future? Re-defining paradise and Caribbean tourism; Changing forms of tourism consumption; Notes; References; 6. Contexts of migration and diasporic identities; Introduction.