Caribbean Transformations

by Sidney W. Mintz

Book Overview

Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introductory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231071159
• ISBN13: 9780231071154
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher