The Caribbean Basin: An International History (The New International History)

The Caribbean Basin: An International History (The New International History)

by Graeme Mount (Author), Gordon Martel (Introduction), StephenRandall (Author)

Synopsis

The Caribbean Basin: An International History provides a study of the entire Caribbean region, including Central America and the Caribbean coast of northern South America. It also offers analysis of:
* the role of international intervention
* the complex interaction among major world powers in the area
* conflicts over colonial possessions and trade routes
* Soviet-American confrontation in the Cold War years.
Integrating the recent political, social and economic history of the Caribbean with its miltary and diplomatic past, this book charts the region's emergence from colonialism during the course of the twentieth century.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 14 May 1998

ISBN 10: 0415089999
ISBN 13: 9780415089999

Media Reviews
In this stimulating and up-to-date survey, Stephen J. Randall and Graeme S. Mount examine the history of the Caribbean Basin from the eighteenth century to the 1990s drawing on a wide variety of archival materials as well as an extensive bibliography of secondary sources. Conceding that this geopolitical region, which encompasses Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname, as well as the island nations and colonies, is characterized as much by diversity as by commonality, they brilliantly demonstrate that the social, economic, political, and diplomatic history of these varied states has been inextricably intertwined....Clearly and engagingly written, the