General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 5: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century

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 brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.

Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 801
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.75d
ISBN: 9781403975935

About the Author
Bridget Brereton is Professor of History at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad.