Empire’s Crossroads: The Caribbean From Columbus to the Current Day

On this compelling historical past Carrie Gibson unfolds the complicated story of the Caribbean from Columbus’ first touchdown on the island he named San Salvador to as we speak’s islands – largely unbiased, however typically nonetheless in thrall to Europe and America’s insatiable need for tropical luxuries. For Gibson, the guts of that story is ‘the genius of adaptation’ – to diaspora, illness, slavery, racism, earthquake, poverty and tourism – that enabled the West Indies to outlive a conflict of worlds.