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389 p, "Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area." (Amazon);
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322 p, Jamaican Politics is about the left, from the perspective of the left. Combining theory with practical experience, Trevor Munroe records important aspects of Jamaica's political history and at the same time identifies and critically reassesses the assumptions, concepts, and preoccupations of leftist writing.
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135 p, Contents: Introduction / Richard Graham -- Racial ideas and social policy in Brazil, 1870-1940 / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Race in Argentina and Cuba, 1880-1930: theory, policies, and popular reaction / Aline Helg -- Racism, revolution, and indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940 / Alan Knight
