Carribbean
...nd exploitation of slavery beginning with Christopher Columbus. This book offers an interesting "pan-Caribbean" perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery. In this book, you find yourself traveling through five centuries of economic and social development. These changes mainly concern the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area. The Caribbean provides a new perspective on the problems of nation building in areas of dense populations, yet scarce resources. The Caribbean provides great reading on the changes that each of the islands made throughout time. If one analyzes the situations brought ...