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The economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic wars /
"This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century (, ♯T͠he Age...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century (, ♯T͠he Age of Free Trade, ♯)̮; the second considers the period up to 1960 (, ♯T͠he Age of Preferences, ♯)̮; and the final section concerns the half century from the Cuban Revolution to the present (, ♯T͠he Age of Globalization, ♯)̮. The study makes use of a specially constructed database to observe trends across the whole region and chart the progress of nearly thirty individual countries. Its findings challenge many long-standing assumptions about the region, and its in-depth case studies shed new light on the history of three countries in particular, namely Belize, Cuba, and Haiti"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139423403 1139423401 9781139031264 1139031260 9781139421355 1139421352 9781139419314 1139419315 1139411020 9781139411028 1316088790 9781316088791 9786613923158 661392315X 1139413074 9781139413077 1139417266 9781139417266 |