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Caribbean History (HI2E8-30)
Module timetable
Module timetable
Week
Lecture
Seminar
Autumn Term
1
The Caribbean - an historical overview
Studying the Caribbean
2
Pre-Columbian populations and societies
The indigenous Caribbean
3
European ‘discovery’
Representing European 'discovery'
4
Sugar revolutions
Barbados' sugar revolution
5
Plantations in the Atlantic world
The plantation economy
6
Reading Week (no lecture or seminar)
7
Racial slavery
Making 'race' and justifying slavery
8
The world the enslaved made
Maroons and maroonage
9
Resisting slavery
The Haitian Revolution
10
Abolishing slavery
Why was slavery abolished?
Spring Term
1
After slavery - change or continuity?
Post-emancipation unrest
2
New West Indians
Asia in the Caribbean
3
America’s backyard
US interventions
4
Interwar protest
The Moyne Commission
5
The Cuban Revolution
A revolutionary Caribbean?
6
Reading Week (no lecture or seminar)
7
The end of empire?
The writings of Michael Manley
8
Migration
After the
Windrush
9
The growth of tourism
Tourism and its critics
10
Freedom or dependency?
Long essay session
Summer Term
1
The Caribbean and the making of the modern world
Film: ‘Life and Debt’
2
Review session: Themes from Caribbean history
Review session: Past papers