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Freedom roots : histories from the Caribbean
- Title
- Freedom roots : histories from the Caribbean / Laurent Dubois & Richard Lee Turits.
- Author
- Dubois, Laurent, 1971-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Turits, Richard Lee
- Description
- 395 pages : map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "For centuries, the Caribbean has been centered in the crosscurrents of global transformations. From the emergence of racial slavery and plantation agriculture to foreign military occupation and radical interventions, the Atlantic world has been deeply shaped by European and U.S. imperialism. But the Caribbean is also a place where people--through contestation, innovation, global migration, and some of history's most dramatic revolutions--have created alternatives to those imposed by their rulers"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Caribbean pasts -- The indigenous Caribbean -- The worlds of the plantations -- Emancipation and the rooting of freedom -- Occupation: U.S. empire and the independent Caribbean -- Insurrection: 1950s Cuba -- Revolution and intervention: Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- Reform: Jamaica, Grenada, and Haiti -- Epilogue: Caribbean futures.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2449
- ISBN
- 9781469653600
- 1469653605
- LCCN
- 2019012190
- 40029619854
- OCLC
- 1090283537
- Author
- Dubois, Laurent, 1971- author.
- Title
- Freedom roots : histories from the Caribbean / Laurent Dubois & Richard Lee Turits.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Turits, Richard Lee, author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029619854
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2449