Caribbean Military Encounters
This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, a
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New Caribbean Studies series seeks to contribute to Caribbean selfunderstanding, to intervene in the terms of global engagement with the region, and to extend Caribbean Studies’ role in reinventing various disciplines and their methodologies well beyond the Caribbean. The series especially solicits humanities-informed and interdisciplinary scholarship from across the region’s language traditions.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14752
Shalini Puri • Lara Putnam Editors
Caribbean Military Encounters
Editors Shalini Puri Department of English University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
New Caribbean Studies ISBN 978-1-137-59058-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58014-6
Lara Putnam Department of History University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-58014-6 (eBook)
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for Leela, Eleanor, Alonso, Gabriel, and Miriam and all the children of the Caribbean and its diaspora
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume has had a momentum all its own from the very start. We are gratified by the immediate and generous response we received to this project. We could not accommodate in this volume all the remarkable proposals and papers we received. Deep thanks to the contributors for the energy and vision they brought to this volume. Working in different periods and languages, using the tools of different disciplines from the humanities, they have helped bring in
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