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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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This masterwork of travel literature and history provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean and illuminates its fierce grip on the world’s imagination.

From the moment Columbus gazed out from the deck of the Santa Maria in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Forged by more than three centuries of mass migration and slave labor, the region and its diverse peoples have helped shape the modern world-through politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro takes us from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, chronicling with wit and keen insight this place where globalization began.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
28 November 2017
Pages
512
ISBN
9780345804990

This masterwork of travel literature and history provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean and illuminates its fierce grip on the world’s imagination.

From the moment Columbus gazed out from the deck of the Santa Maria in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Forged by more than three centuries of mass migration and slave labor, the region and its diverse peoples have helped shape the modern world-through politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro takes us from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, chronicling with wit and keen insight this place where globalization began.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
28 November 2017
Pages
512
ISBN
9780345804990

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