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Discussion of Puerto Rican rural relations in general, and on slavery in particular. The author argues that the island's claim to uniqueness among slave societies does not lie in its scant use of slave labour in the export sector, but in the delicate coexistence of two incompatible models of labour extraction.

The Caribbean stage -- Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker -- Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor -- The earliest settlers / Antonio Curet -- Old world precedents: sugar and slavery in the Mediterranean / William D. Phillips Jr -- The making of a colonial sphere -- The columbian moment: politics, ideology, and biohistory / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- From tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: labor, migration, and resistance / Jalil Sued-Badillo -- Negotiations of conquest / Lynne A. Guitar -- Toward sugar and slavery / Stephan Palmié -- Masterless people: maroons, pirates, and commoners / Isaac Curtis -- Colonial designs in flux -- The Caribbean between empires: colonists, pirates, and slaves / Josep M. Fradera -- Imperial decline, colonial adaptation: the Spanish islands during the long 17th century / Francisco A. Scarano -- The Atlantic framework of 17th-century colonization / Alison Games -- Servants and slaves during the 17th-century sugar revolution / Hilary Mcd. Beckles -- The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600-1800 / Philip Boucher -- Slaves and tropical commodities: the Caribbean in the south Atlantic system / Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel -- Capitalism, slavery, and revolution -- Slave cultures: systems of domination and forms of resistance / Philip Morgan -- Rivalry, war, and imperial reform in the 18th-century Caribbean / Douglas Hamilton -- The Haitian revolution / Laurent Dubois -- The abolition of slavery in the non-hispanic Caribbean / Diana Paton -- Econocide?: from abolition to emancipation in the British and French Caribbean / Dale Tomich -- Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition / Jean Besson -- A reordered world -- A second slavery? the 19th-century sugar revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Peasants, immigrants, and workers: the British and French Caribbean after emancipation / Gad Heuman -- War and nation building: Cuban and Dominican experiences / Robert Whitney -- The rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846-1905 / Luis Martínez-Fernández -- The conundrum of race: retooling inequality / Elizabeth Cooper -- Africa, Europe, and Asia in the making of the 20th-century Caribbean / Aisha Khan -- The new empire -- Building US hegemony in the Caribbean / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- The American sugar kingdom, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala -- Culture, labor, and race in the shadow of US capital / Winston James -- Labor protests, rebellions, and the rise of nationalism during depression and war / O. Nigel Bolland -- Toward decolonization: impulses, processes, and consequences since the 1930s / Anne S. Macpherson -- The Caribbean and the cold war: between reform and revolution / David Sheinin -- The Caribbean in the age of globalization -- The long Cuban revolution / Michael Zeuske -- Independence and its aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica / Anthony P. Maingot -- The colonial persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles / Humberto García Muñiz -- An island in the mirror: the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Pedro L. San Miguel -- Tourism, drugs, offshore finance, and the perils of neoliberal development / Robert Goddard -- Caribbean migrations and diasporas / Christine M. Du Bois

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Identity and Struggle in the History of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America, I8so-I9So -- Central America -- "That a Poor Man Be Industrious": Coffee, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador's Ladino Peasantry, I8so-I900 -- "jVana Ilusi6n!": The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, I88o-I92S -- At Their Own Risk: Coffee Farmers and Debt in Nicaragua, I870-I930 -- Auxiliary Forces in the Shaping of the Repressive System: El Salvador, I88o-I930 -- The Banana Enclave, Nationalism, and Mestizaje in fIonduras, 1910S-1930S -- Laborers and Smallholders in Costa Rica's Mining Communities, 1900-1940 -- Reforging National Revolution: Campesino Labor Struggles in Guatemala, I944-I9S4 -- The Hispanic Caribbean -- Free Love and Domesticity: Sexuality and the Shaping of Working-Class Feminism in Puerto Rico, I900-I9I7 -- "Omnipotent and Omnipresent"? Labor Shortages, Worker Mobility, and Employer Control in the Cuban Sugar Industry, I9IO-I934 -- The Foundations of Despotism: Agrarian Reform, Rural Transformation, and Peasant-State Compromise in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, I930-I944 -- Conclusion: Imagining the Future if the Subaltern Past- Fragments if Race, Class, and Gender in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, I850-I950 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors