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This book surveys the historical orgins of US foreign policy in the Caribbean region . It takes a close look at the invasion of Grenada by US forces in the 1980s and places that invasion in the context of that historical picture. It argues that ultimately, Caribbean political decision-making is constrained by the reality of the powerful and much bigger neighbour to the North. In considering the historical factors that govern US relations with the Caribbean islands and mainland territories, it is noted that the Monroe Doctrine, first promulgated in the 1820s, became the primary...

Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 16801834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having adeptly mined the existing archival data and statistics on Bridgetown, Pedro Welch shares with readers these nuggets of information that contribute immensely to our understanding of the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean. The book shows how life in the urban slave society departed significantly from that of the rural plantation. There is considerable evidence indicating that slaves and freed persons...