African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
446 p., The sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers. The wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.
United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Author)
Format:
Annual Periodical
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Santiago, Chile: United Nations Pub.
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
130 p., This edition discusses the crisis generated in the developed world and the recovery driven by the emerging economies. Topics such as analysis of the post-crisis international economic situation concentrating on its implications for international trade prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean and examining the recovery of the global economy, which has centered mainly on the Asian economies (especially China) and other emerging economies, together with the role played by international trade in this recovery both globally and regionally and the heterogeneity of trade performance between different regions of the world.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
710 p, Examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. Its findings challenge many long-standing assumptions about the region, and its in-depth case studies shed new light on the history of three countries in particular, namely Belize, Cuba, and Haiti"
