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A wide-ranging overview of the challenges facing the region today. . . . A welcome assessment of the positive action that is being taken by Caribbean people to reassert their place within a globalizing world. <br> -- The Round Table

These original essays . . . offer refreshing new looks into contemporary Caribbean societies regionally, and specifically in the cases of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Highly recommended.--Choice A wide-ranging overview of the challenges facing the region today. . . . A welcome assessment of the positive action that is being taken by Caribbean people to reassert their place within a globalizing world.--The Round Table Offers many ways to approach contemporary globalization, especially as it is experienced by insular societies with limited natural resources.--New West Indian Guide The most rewarding aspect of these volumes is that their divergence in orientation raises important questions about the ways we interpret the Caribbean.--Caribbean Studies

Offers many ways to approach contemporary globalization, especially as it is experienced by insular societies with limited natural resources.--<i>New West Indian Guide</i>

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FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He has written, edited, or coedited nine books, including The Modern Caribbean. TERESITA MARTINEZ-VERGNE is professor of history at Macalester College. She is author of three other books, including Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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