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The Caribbean

Franklin W. Knight

  • 251 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1978
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

Journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area.

  • Politics and government
  • Economic conditions
  • Economic history
  • Caribbean area, economic conditions
  • Caribbean area, social conditions
  • Social conditions

2 About Franklin W. Knight

Born 1942

Franklin W. Knight (born 1942) is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies. He was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal for literature in 2013.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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