imbalance by writing the Caribbean people themselves into their own history. The book follows the development of the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian period, encompassing the experience of conquest, colonization, slavery to emancipation, and finally political independence. This modern history of the Caribbean is unique in its treatment of the region as a whole and the author covers the French, Spanish, Dutch and English-speaking countries with equal authority. It is a concise and authoritative work complete with historical maps, line illustrations, an A-Z historical gazetteer and a chronology of major events.

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