TY - BOOK AU - Heuman,Gad J. TI - The Caribbean: a brief history SN - 9781780935997 (hardback) AV - F2175F2175F2175F2175F2175 .H48 2014.H48.H48.H48.H48 U1 - 972.9 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Caribbean Area KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; The Amerindians and European patterns of settlement --; 2; Sugar and slavery --; 3; Slavery, work and the slaves' economy --; 4; Neither black nor white --; 5; The world the planters made --; 6; Slave resistance: Africans, Maroons and women --; 7; The Haitian Revolution --; 8; The abolition debates --; 9; Race, racism and equality --; 10; From slavery to freedom --; 11; Riots and resistance in the aftermath of emancipation --; 12; The Africanization of the Caribbean --; 13; The American century --; 14; Labour protests and the 1930s --; 15; The revolutionary Caribbean --; 16; Contemporary themes in the Hispanic and the wider Caribbean --; 17; The cultures of the Caribbean ER -