This volume should interest many Latin Americanists not only because it provides a detailed overview of the history of a large part of the Caribbean from late precolonial through postcolonial times, but also because it does so from an unusual perspective. The extensive Spanish-language literature on the Caribbean more typically treats Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. And, in fact, the three other volumes of this series synthesize the scholarship for each of those former colonies: the first, on Cuba, appeared in 2009 and was edited by Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, who is also the general editor of the series; the second, on the Hispanic portion of Hispaniola, was edited by Frank Moya Pons and came out in 2010; and the fourth, on Puerto Rico, should be available soon. In contrast, the cosmopolitan group of historians who authored the 20 chapters of this third volume in the series mainly draws...

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