Description
This is an introductory text for students if Caribbean Politics at the undergraduate level. It provides a broad historical sweep from the slave era to the contemporary period, characterised by issues of structural adjustments and globalisation, and in between, the years of worker revolt and protest.
The text is structured and presented around core concepts used to analyse Caribbean politics and political systems. Understanding of each concept is aided and enriched by selected readings from both published works as well as original articles specially commissioned for this book.
Summaries of the key concepts are discussed in each section, and questions provided to aid readers’ understanding, suggestions for further reading and a self-assessment section.