A Brief History of the Caribbean

This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. . A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics wars and revolutions and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake Blackbeard Toussaint Louverture Fidel Castro the Duvaliers and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. . This superbly written history revised and updated with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social economic and political developments is a work of impeccable scholarship. Featuring maps charts tables and photographs it remains the ideal guide to the region and its people.