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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Caribbean: A Geographic Preface | |
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| Defining the Caribbean | |
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| Climate and Weather Patterns in the Caribbean | |
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| Landforms in the Caribbean | |
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| The Caribbean Amerindian Population | |
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| Patterns of European Settlement After Conquest | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Sugarcane in the West Indies | |
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| Population Problems | |
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| Emigration from the Caribbean | |
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| Urbanization in the Caribbean | |
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| Economic Geography of the Caribbean | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| Conquest and Colonization, 1492-1800 | |
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| Nation Building and Socioeconomic Transition in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Non-Spanish Caribbean in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Emergence of U.S. Hegemony, 1898-1930s | |
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| The Emergence of Labor Organizations | |
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| War and Cold War, 1939-1959 | |
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| The Cuban Revolution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Caribbean Politics | |
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| The Past as Prelude | |
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| External Influences, Internal Dynamics, and New Forms | |
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| The Case of Puerto Rico | |
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| Socioeconomic Conditions and Political Consciousness | |
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| Postwar Transitions | |
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| The Case of the Dominican Republic | |
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| The Anglo-Caribbean | |
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| The Case of Jamaica | |
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| Decades of Challenge and Change: The 1970s and 1980s | |
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| The Case of Grenada | |
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| The Resurgence of U.S. Interventionism | |
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| The Case of Haiti | |
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| An Era of Uncertainty: The 1990s and 2000s | |
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| The Economies of the Caribbean | |
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| Common Economic History | |
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| Some Differences | |
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| Current Economic Structure | |
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| Current Economic Performance | |
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| Current and Projected Economic Challenges | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International Relations | |
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| Caribbean International Relations: A Historical Overview | |
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| The Dynamics of Caribbean International Relations in the Modern Era | |
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| International Challenges Confronting the Caribbean | |
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| The Environment and Ecology | |
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| The Physical Setting | |
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| Historical and Recent Land Use Change | |
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| Climate Change and Caribbean Environments | |
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| Sustainability and the Environment: Some Reflections | |
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| Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nationality | |
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| The Mix of Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nationality Across the Caribbean | |
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| Historical Legacies | |
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| Ethnic, Racial, and National Minorities in Caribbean Society | |
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| Imagining the Caribbean Nation | |
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| Contemporary Realities and Caribbean Migrant Communities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Women and Development | |
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| The Sociocultural Context of Caribbean Women | |
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| Caribbean Women's Early Struggles | |
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| Women in the Hispanic Caribbean | |
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| Caribbean Women's Continuing Struggles | |
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| Gender, Class, and Familial Organization | |
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| The "Independent" Woman in the Contemporary Caribbean | |
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| Women and the Organization of American States | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religion in the Caribbean | |
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| Categories of Caribbean Religions | |
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| Working the Amalgam | |
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| Vodou | |
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| Santeria | |
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| The Rastafari and the Dread | |
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| Spiritual Baptists | |
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| Caribbean Religions in the Diaspora | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Literature and Popular Culture | |
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| Indigenous Cultural Patterns | |
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| The Early Colonial Era: Material Changes and Cultural Adaptation | |
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| The Nineteenth Century: Toward Cultural Autonomy | |
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| The Early Twentieth Century: Literary Movements, Vernacular Writing, and Cultural Unification | |
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| The Mid-Twentieth Century: The Dialectic of Exile and Nationalism | |
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| The Late Twentieth Century and Beyond: The Dialectic of Return and Disillusionment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Caribbean Diaspora | |
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| The Encounter with Europe: Domination of the Caribbean | |
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| Caribbean-North American Circulations, 1880-1970 | |
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| Caribbean Diaspora Networks, 1970s to the Present | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trends and Prospects | |
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| The Intergovernmental Dynamic | |
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| Transnational Civil Society | |
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| The Forum of Greater Caribbean Civil Society | |
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| The Future | |