The story of the Caribbean people

Perceptions of the Caribbean have long been determined by Eurocentric concepts and prejudices. In this book, James Ferguson tries to redress this imbalance by writing the Caribbean people themselves into their own history. The book follows the development of the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian period, encompassing the experience of conquest, colonization, slavery to emancipation, and finally political independence.

This modern history of the Caribbean is unique in its treatment of the region as a whole and the author covers the French, Spanish, Dutch and English-speaking countries with equal authority. It is a concise and authoritative work complete with historical maps, line illustrations, an A-Z historical gazetteer and a chronology of major events.