Table of Contents

Introduction - R.S. Hillman. The Caribbean: A Geographic Preface - T.D. Boswell. The Historical Context - S.J. Randall. Caribbean Politics - T.J. D'Agostino. The Economies of the Caribbean - D.A. Pantin and M. Attzs. International Relations - J.A. Braveboy-Wagner. The Environment and Ecology - D. McGregor. Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nationality - D. Baronov and K.A. Yelvington. Women and Development - A.L. Bolles. Religion in the Caribbean - L.G. Desmangles, S.D. Glazier, and J.M. Murphy. Literature and Popular Culture - K. Meehan and P.B. Miller. The Caribbean Diaspora - D. Conway. Trends and Prospects - R.S. Hillman and A. Serbin.

About the Author

Richard S. Hillman is professor emeritus of political science at St. John's Fisher College. His publications include Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela and Understanding Contemporary Latin America. Thomas J. D'Agostino is executive director of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education. He is coauthor, with Richard S. Hillman, of Distant Neighbors in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Jamaica in Comparative Perspective.