General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 5

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxx

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2. Introduction

   • Bridget Brereton

   Pages 1-6

3. The economic development of the Caribbean from 1880 to 1930

   • Roberto Cassá

   Pages 7-41

4. The Caribbean in the 1930s

   • Franklin W. Knight

   Pages 42-81

5. The Caribbean in the Second World War

   • Claus Füllberg-Stolberg

   Pages 82-140

6. Proletarian movements (1940–90)

   • Patrick Bryan

   Pages 141-173

7. Decolonization, populist movements and the formation of new nations, 1945–70

   • James Millette

   Pages 174-223

8. African and Indian consciousness

   • Tony Martin

   Pages 224-281

9. The Cuban Revolution and its impact on the Caribbean

   • Marifeli Pérez-Stable

   Pages 282-311

10. Political processes in the Caribbean, 1970s to 2000

    • Anthony P. Maingot

    Pages 312-345

11. The forces of regional co-operation, 1942–97

    • Antonio Gaztambide-Géigel

    Pages 346-368

12. Caribbean international relations at the turn of the century

    • Anthony T. Bryan

    Pages 369-400

13. Demographic and social structural changes in the contemporary Caribbean

    • Fe Iglesias García

    Pages 401-433

14. The migration experience

    • Bonham C. Richardson

    Pages 434-464

15. The changing status of women in the contemporary Caribbean

    • Alice Colón, Rhoda Reddock

    Pages 465-505

16. The Caribbean family: Continuity and transformation

    • Raymond T. Smith

    Pages 506-536

17. Ideology, identity, culture

    • Rex Nettleford

    Pages 537-558

18. Religion, myths and beliefs: Their socio-political roles

    • Robert J. Stewart

    Pages 559-606

19. Education in the Caribbean, 1930–90

    • Carl Campbell

    Pages 606-626

20. The quality of life in the twentieth-century Caribbean

    • Bonham C. Richardson, Joseph L. Scarpaci

    Pages 627-666

Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic, political, religious, social and cultural history of this period brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.

• 20th century
• Caribbean
• history
• history of literature
• twentieth century

Bridget Brereton is Professor of History at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad.

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