HISTORIA DE AMÉRICA LATINA; EL CARIBE
EDITORIAL FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA Y UNESCO
 

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General History of the Caribbean.

General History of the Caribbean. Volume I: Autochthonous Societies
	Edited by  Jalil Sued-Badillo PRECIO DE LEA: $62.00 Livre, 442 pages Format: 23,5 x 15,5 cm 2003, 92-3-103832-X Sommaire UNESCO Publishing / Macmillan
Volume I of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time, in and around the Caribbean region.      `Caribbeanness' began to form when the first human groups set foot on the islands. According to the latest archaeological data, that historical legacy has a tradition of almost 10,000 years in Cuba, 7,000 years in Trinidad and 5,000 in Puerto Rico.      Autochthony is not so much a matter of biology as of sociology. Ethnohistorical research combines early documentary sources as well as archaeology, linguistics, and social theory with biogeographical evidence of the earliest cultures. This volume investigates the movement of Palaeoindians into the islands from the mainlands surrounding them, in the context of environmental changes, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed in the Caribbean, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.      By identifying with a legacy which goes beyond the five hundred years of colonial life, the Caribbean peoples can begin to bind together as a region and claim a rich inheritance from the earliest cultural expressions which emerge in this volume.

General History of the Caribbean. Volume II: New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century
	Edited by P. C. Emmer Co-editor: German Carrera Damas PRECIO DE LEA: $62.00 Book, 344 pages, Illustrations, figures, maps Format: 23,5 x 15,5 cm 1999, 92-3-103357-3 UNESCO Publishing / Macmillan
This volume studies the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 y 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. It examines all the ingredients for creating new societies by conquest and occupation. It looks at the early mining and planting activities on the Spanish in Espaniola, the privateers and contraband traders from the other European countries, the plantation societies of the Lesser Antilles, the extinction of the indigenous population in the Greater Antilles, the wars against the Caribs, and the beginnings of the slave trade and slavery.       The volume, which includes maps and an extensive list of sources, also studies the environment and the effects of European settlement, the making of cities and of maps, and discusses the intellectual, artistic and ideological cultures of people settling in a new world.

General History of the Caribbean. Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean
	Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean Edited by Franklin W. Knight PRECIO DE LEA: $62.00 Book, 380 pages, Illustrations, figures, maps Format: 23,5 x 15,5 cm 1997, 92-3-103146-5 UNESCO Publishing / Macmillan
This third volume (the first to be published) begins with an overview of the slave trade, African slavers and the demography of the Caribbean up to 1750. Scholars go on to study the demographic and social structure of the Caribbean slave societies in the eighteenth and nineteeth centuries, as well as their evolution and significance. Social and political control in the slave society and forms of resistance and religious beliefs are also covered, as well as Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean. The phenomenon of pluralism and creolization is analysed. The volume closes with a study of the distintegration of the Caribbean slave systems.

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General History of the Caribbean. Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
	Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century Edited by Bridget Brereton PRECIO DE LEA: $62.00 Book, 788 pages, illustrations, figures, maps, tables, plates, biblio., index Format: 23,5 x 15,5 cm 2004, 92-3-103359-X UNESCO Publishing / Macmillan
The major objective of Volume V of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean is to provide an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the century. Within its compass are the ‘turbulent thirties’, including the Cuban Revolution of 1933 and the labour protests in the British Caribbean of 1934–39; the strategic position occupied by the region during the Second World War; the development of proletarian movements and trade unions and their links with political parties; decolonization; political evolution in the French and Dutch Caribbean, and the ‘turn to the left’ made in the 1970s by a number of Anglophone Caribbean countries, notably Grenada. Also examined are the Castro Revolution and its aftermath to the 1990s; ethnicity and race consciousness and their effects in uniting or dividing communities and nations; international relations and regional co-operation; changes in social and demographic structures (including the role and status of women); education, migration and urbanization; and the beliefs and cultural experiences which underpin Caribbean identity.      The final chapter provides an overall survey of changes in the quality of life in the Caribbean during the twentieth century.

General History of the Caribbean. Volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean
	Edited by B.W. Higman PRECIO DE LEA: $62.00 Book, 950 pages Format: 23,5 x 15,5 cm 1999, 92-3-103360-3 UNESCO Publishing / Macmillan
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography.       The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbean as a whole.

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