General History of the Caribbean Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twen

Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic, political, religious, social and cultural history of this period brin

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General History of the Caribbean Titles in the series Volume I Autochthonous Societies Volume II

New Societies: The Caribbean in the 'Long' Sixteenth Century Volume III

The Slave Societies of the Caribbean

Volume IV The Long Nineteenth Century: Nineteenth-Century Transformations Volume V The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century Volume VI

Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean

General History

of the Caribbean Volume V The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century

Editor: Bridget Brereton Co-editors: Teresita Martinez- Vergne) Rene A. Romer and Blanca G. Silvestrini

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CONTENTS

Preface Federico Mayor, Former Director-General of UNESCO . Description of the Project

Professor Sir Roy Augier

vii

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List of Contributors .

xiii

Members of the International Scientific Commitee for the Drafting of the General History of the Caribbean

xvi

Abbreviations .

. xvii

Maps and Charts

. xxiii

Tables

xxiv

Plates

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Acknowledgements The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century . Introduction 1 2

3 4 5

6 7 8

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Bridget Brereton .

xxx . 1

The economic development of the Caribbean from 1880 to 1930 Roberto Cassa .

. 7

The Caribbean in the 1930s Franklin W Kni