Politics, Society, and Culture in the Caribbean

Silvestrini, Blanca G., Ed., Politics, Society, and Culture in the Caribbean: Selected Papers of the XIV Conference of Caribbean Historians, San Juan: University of Puerto Rico, 1983.

Blanca G. Silvestrini is from San Juan, Puerto Rico. A graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, she received her Ph.D. in Latin American History at SUNY-Albany and did postgraduate work in the Department of History of Science at Harvard.

Contents:

PART 1: Cultural and Economic Influences of the United States in the Caribbean:

1) United States Cultural Influences on the English-Speaking Caribbean during the Twentieth Century, by Franklin W. Knight
2) La Iglesia Protestante como agente de americanización en Puerto Rico, 1898 – 1917, por Samuel Silva Gotay
3) La política de salud publica de los Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico, 1898 – 1913: Consecuencias en el proceso de americanización, por Blanca G. Silvestrini
4) The Idea of Race: The Cultural Impact of American Intervention in Cuba, 1898 – 1912, by Cathy Duke
5) Early United States Investors in Puerto Rican Sugar, by Muriel McAvoy-Weissman
6) El impacto de la invasión americana en la zona cafetalera de Puerto Rico: El caso de Utuado, por Fernando Picó
7) Las franquicias: instrumento de penetración económica en Puerto Rico, 1900 – 1915, por Maria Dolores Luque de Sánchez

PART 2: The French Antilles: Relationships with other Caribbean Areas:

8) Le projet des révoltes serviles de l’Île de Cuba dans la première moitie du XIXe siècle, par Alain Yacou
9) Relations avec l’étranger des minorités religieuses aux antilles françaises (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles), par Gerard Lafleur
10) La Revolución Haitiana y el movimiento anti-esclavista en Puerto Rico, por Arturo Morales Carrión

PART 3: Workers in the English Speaking Caribbean

11) The Struggle of African Slaves and European Workers against Planter Rule, 1724 – 1780, by Hilary Beckles
12) Walter Citrine and the British Caribbean Workers Movement during the Moyne Commission Hearing, 1938 – 1939, by Sabadeo Basdeo
13) The Trinidad Labour Party and the Moyne Commission, 1938, by Brinsley Samaroo