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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.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introductory chapter. Part One begins with a look at the African antecedents of the Caribbean, then discusses slavery and the plantation system. Two chapters deal with slavery and forced labor in Puerto Rico and the history of a Puerto Rican plantation. Part Two is concerned with the rise of a Caribbean peasantry--the erstwhile slaves who separated themselves from the plantation system on small plots of land. This creative adaptation led to the growth of a class of rural landowners producing a large part of their own subsistence but also selling to and buying from wider markets. Mintz first discusses the origins of reconstructed peasantries, and then proceeds to the specifics of the origins and history of the peasantry in Jamaica. Part Three turns to Caribbean nationhood--the political and economic forces that affected its shaping and the social structure of its component societies. A separate chapter details the case of Haiti. The book ends with a critique of the implications of Caribbean nationhood from an anthropological perspective, stressing the ways that class, color and other social dimensions continue to play important parts in the organization of Caribbean societies.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0231071159
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0231071154
  3. Edition
    Reprint
  4. Publisher
    Columbia University Press
  5. Publication date
    December 1, 1989
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
  8. Print length
    355 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 1989
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 355 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231071159
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231071154
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,933,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars (3)

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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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    3.0 out of 5 stars An Old Book in a New Cover
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018
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    Caribbean Transformations is a 1989 reissue of a book originally published in 1974. As is customary, the author wrote a foreword to the new edition. The book itself is a collection of the author's essays on the Caribbean published between 1951 and 1970 and updated for their appearance in book form. I will update this review as I progress through the text.

    For a modern take Caribbean history, I recommend The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker.
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