Island People: The Caribbean and the World
ISBN-13:
9781782115595
ISBN-10:
1782115595
Edition:
Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland
Author:
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Format:
Paperback
464 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781782115595
ISBN-10:
1782115595
Edition:
Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland
Author:
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Format:
Paperback
464 pages
Summary
Island People: The Caribbean and the World (ISBN-13: 9781782115595 and ISBN-10: 1782115595), written by authors
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, was published by Canongate Books Ltd in 2017.
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A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.
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