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