"The most powerful forces in the Caribbean are not nations but transnational industries. This work of political economy charts the recent history of the region to show how a global capitalist class stays a step ahead of the domestic and international structures that aspire to bo…
Introduction / Robert E. Looney -- An alternative policy approach to growth and stabilization in small open economies / DeLisle Worrell -- Impacts of climate change on Caribbean economies / Masaō I. Ashtine -- Caribbean energy security : regional profile and challenges to integr…
Introduction / Robert E. Looney -- An alternative policy approach to growth and stabilization in small open economies / DeLisle Worrell -- Impacts of climate change on Caribbean economies / Masaō I. Ashtine -- Caribbean energy security : regional profile and challenges to integr…
I. From Marx... -- The problem of social form in Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery -- Reading capital in the Caribbean: Marx and the nature of capitalist slavery -- II. ...To Black Jacobinism -- The reinvention of social form: the necessity of revolution in C. L. R. James's…
Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science on the side -- Conclusion
"This volume includes essays that explore the history of tourism and its promotion and development throughout Latin American and the Caribbean in the twentieth century."
"This book addresses the myriad of issues facing farmers and outline practical solutions that have been proven to produce good results to farmers, despite the prescriptive policies and agricultural systems that appear to be disconnected from actual best practices on farms"-
