The Caribbean : a history of the region and its peoples / edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-624) and index.

The Caribbean stage -- Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker -- Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor -- The earliest settlers / Antonio Curet -- Old world precedents: sugar and slavery in the Mediterranean / William D. Phillips Jr -- The making of a colonial sphere -- The columbian moment: politics, ideology, and biohistory / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- From tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: labor, migration, and resistance / Jalil Sued-Badillo -- Negotiations of conquest / Lynne A. Guitar -- Toward sugar and slavery / Stephan Palmié -- Masterless people: maroons, pirates, and commoners / Isaac Curtis -- Colonial designs in flux -- The Caribbean between empires: colonists, pirates, and slaves / Josep M. Fradera -- Imperial decline, colonial adaptation: the Spanish islands during the long 17th century / Francisco A. Scarano -- The Atlantic framework of 17th-century colonization / Alison Games -- Servants and slaves during the 17th-century sugar revolution / Hilary Mcd. Beckles -- The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600-1800 / Philip Boucher -- Slaves and tropical commodities: the Caribbean in the south Atlantic system / Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel -- Capitalism, slavery, and revolution -- Slave cultures: systems of domination and forms of resistance / Philip Morgan -- Rivalry, war, and imperial reform in the 18th-century Caribbean / Douglas Hamilton -- The Haitian revolution / Laurent Dubois -- The abolition of slavery in the non-hispanic Caribbean / Diana Paton -- Econocide?: from abolition to emancipation in the British and French Caribbean / Dale Tomich -- Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition / Jean Besson -- A reordered world -- A second slavery? the 19th-century sugar revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Peasants, immigrants, and workers: the British and French Caribbean after emancipation / Gad Heuman -- War and nation building: Cuban and Dominican experiences / Robert Whitney -- The rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846-1905 / Luis Martínez-Fernández -- The conundrum of race: retooling inequality / Elizabeth Cooper -- Africa, Europe, and Asia in the making of the 20th-century Caribbean / Aisha Khan -- The new empire -- Building US hegemony in the Caribbean / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- The American sugar kingdom, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala -- Culture, labor, and race in the shadow of US capital / Winston James -- Labor protests, rebellions, and the rise of nationalism during depression and war / O. Nigel Bolland -- Toward decolonization: impulses, processes, and consequences since the 1930s / Anne S. Macpherson -- The Caribbean and the cold war: between reform and revolution / David Sheinin -- The Caribbean in the age of globalization -- The long Cuban revolution / Michael Zeuske -- Independence and its aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica / Anthony P. Maingot -- The colonial persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles / Humberto García Muñiz -- An island in the mirror: the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Pedro L. San Miguel -- Tourism, drugs, offshore finance, and the perils of neoliberal development / Robert Goddard -- Caribbean migrations and diasporas / Christine M. Du Bois.

This book traces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of U.S. hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century. It begins with a discussion of the region's diverse geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at the transatlantic slave trade.