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Empire`s Crossroads: The Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

In Empire`s Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term `globalization` was coined. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters – but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists. It is not only a story of imperial expansion – European and American – but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.

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