Stephan Palmie is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, specializing in Afro-Caribbean cultures. He is the author of Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Francisco A. Scarano is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is the author of Puerto Rico: Cinco siglos de historia.
"Illuminating."-- "Los Angeles Times"
"A welcome collection of state-of-the-art contributions by
prominent scholars of the Caribbean, discussing a broad range of
topics from pre-Columbian cultures via plantation slavery and
decolonization to the Caribbean diaspora. . . . An excellent and
highly readable textbook, surely recommended for teaching Caribbean
history."--J. Oostindie, director of the Royal Netherlands
Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
"This is a remarkable and admirably ambitious collection. The span
is overwhelming, for it reaches from physiography and indigenous
settlement to today's economics and politics. . . . The Caribbean:
A History of the Region and its Peoples will enable just about any
reader--student, scholar, layperson--to learn more about this
anciently Europeanized part of the world than he or she knew
before."--Sidney W. Mintz, William L. Straus Jr. Professor
Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
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