Caribbean Transformations

Herausgeber: Mintz, Sidney W

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780202309576
• ISBN-10: 0202309576
• Artikelnr.: 21654969

Autorenporträt

Sidney W. Mintz

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Afro-Caribbeana: An Introduction
PART I. SLAVERY
FORCED LABOR AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM
2. Slavery and the Afro-American World
3. Slavery and Forced Labor in Puerto Rico
4. The History of a Puerto Rican Plantation
PART II. CARIBBEAN PEASANTRIES
5. The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries
6. The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages
7. The Origins of the Jamaican Market System
8. The Contemporary Jamaican Market System
9. Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries
PART III. CARIBBEAN NATIONHOOD
10. The Case of Haiti
11. Caribbean Nationhood: An Anthropological Perspective
References
Index