Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Pre-Colombian Societies

Chapter Two: First Encounters

Chapter Three: Trade, Piracy and War

Chapter Four: Sugar, the Plantation Revolution and the Development of the Slave Economy

Chapter Five: Slave Society

Chapter Six: Slave Resistance

Chapter Seven: The Haitian Revolution

Chapter Eight: Abolition and Emancipation

Chapter Nine: Post-Emancipation Society and Economy

Chapter Ten: Indentured Labour and Nineteenth Century Immigration

Chapter Eleven: U.S. Interventions and Influences in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter Twelve: The Africanization of the Caribbean

Chapter Thirteen: War, Labor and Urban Protest

Chapter Fourteen: Dictatorship and Political Repression ? Trujillo and Duvalier

Chapter Fifteen: Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean and Suriname

Chapter Sixteen: Politics and Society in the Non-Independent Caribbean

Chapter Seventeen: The Revolutionary Caribbean ? Cuba and Grenada

Chapter Eighteen: Economic Diversification and Development

Chapter Nineteen: Race, Identity and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Chapter Twenty: Migration and Diaspora