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Résumé : Esta historia mínima está dedicada a la evolución histórica de las Antillas hispanas, a excepción de Cuba, y las Antillas británicas. Conocer la historia de todas las Antillas es fundamental para entender la expansión y la historia atlántica, ya que por su posición geográfica fueron un punto estratégico de partida. Su carácter de centros neurálgicos hizo vital su control para la hegemonía de las naciones europeas en disputa. La historia que recogen estas páginas comienza con la llega de Cristobal Colón a las Indias, un continente habitado por diferentes pueblos y culturas cuyo descubrimiento cambió el rumbo de la humanidad. El impacto que supuso el descubrimiento y la colonización entraño la desaparición de muchos pueblos originarios y el comienzo de culturas nuevas. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : 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.- Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : En 2000, l'enseignement du secondaire s'ouvre à l'histoire des outre-mers français, ce qui fait prendre conscience d'un domaine qui mérite une attention particulière. Ces articles s'interrogent sur l'histoire des Antilles (quels documents utiliser ?), l'histoire aux Antilles (en tant que colonies françaises, et dans le contexte historiographique) et rendent hommage à Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande.

Résumé : A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements toward political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. Written in a lively and accessible style yet current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans--the paleo-Indians--in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. - Note de l'éditeur

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