Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.
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Sidney W. Mintz is professor emeritus, department of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He founded the department there in 1975. He has done extensive field research in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as in Iran. He launched a research program in Hong Kong to study the consumption and production of soybean and examine soy products in the United States.
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In the course of the nearly five hundred years since the "discovery" of the New World, millions of migrants from every corner of the earth became "Americans." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Puerto Rico, New World, North American, Puerto Rican, Sturge Town, Hacienda Vieja, Santo Domingo, Latin America, Reverend Clark, West Indies, West Africa, French Saint-Domingue, Haitian Revolution, South European, Greater Antilles, Native Americans, North European, Lesser Antilles, West Indian, Hispanic Caribbean, Barrio Poyal, Old World, Great Britain, Third World New!
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In the course of the nearly five hundred years since the "discovery" of the New World, millions of migrants from every corner of the earth became "Americans." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Puerto Rico, New World, North American, Puerto Rican, Sturge Town, Hacienda Vieja, Santo Domingo, Latin America, Reverend Clark, West Indies, West Africa, French Saint-Domingue, Haitian Revolution, South European, Greater Antilles, Native Americans, North European, Lesser Antilles, West Indian, Hispanic Caribbean, Barrio Poyal, Old World, Great Britain, Third World New!
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- The Myth of The Negro Past by Melville Herskovits in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Haitian People (Caribbean Series) by James Graham Leyburn in Front Matter, page 283, and Back Matter
- Puerto Rico by Kathleen Thompson on page 97, and Back Matter
- Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Modern Production Among Backward Peoples by Ida C. Greaves on page 53, and Back Matter
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- Economic History of Puerto Rico by James L. Dietz on 6 pages
- Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (CGWISBS) by Ira Berlin on 6 pages
- Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Gilbert M. Joseph on 5 pages
- Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities by Mary C. Waters on 4 pages
- From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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