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Core reading list

Beckles, Hilary and Verene Shepherd (eds), Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present: A Student Reader (London, 1993).

Beckles, Hilary and Verene Shepherd (eds), Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader (London, 2000) [there is also a shorter 1st edition of 1991 entitled Caribbean Slave Society and Economy].

De Barros, Juanita, Audra Diptee and David V. Trotman, Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History (Princeton, 2006).

Foote, Nicola (ed.), The Caribbean History Reader (London, 2013).

Gilmore, John, Faces of the Caribbean (London, 2000).

Higman, Barry W., A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge, 2011) [e-book].

Knight, Franklin W. and Colin Palmer (eds), The Modern Caribbean (Chapel Hill, 1989).

Knight, Franklin W., The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (2nd edition, Oxford, 1990; 3rd edition, Oxford, 2011).

Lowenthal, David, West Indian Societies (Oxford, 1972).

Martin, Tony, Caribbean History: From Pre-colonial Origins to the Present (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2012).

Mintz, Sidney W., Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations (London, 2010).

Mintz, Sidney, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, 1985).

Moya Pons, Frank, History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World (London, 2007).

Palmié, Stephan and Francisco A. Scarano (eds), The Caribbean: A History of the Region and its Peoples (Chicago, 2011).

Richardson, Bonham C., The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography (Cambridge, 1992).

Sheller, Mimi, Consuming the Caribbean (London, 2003).

Watts, David, The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 (Cambridge, 1987).