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Teaching Schedule: The Caribbean in World History (LT)

Lent 2025 

Tuesdays

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Location

Topic

04 February

 Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road  1: Introduction to the Course – Conquest, The Colombian Exchange, and Spanish Mercantilism
11 February  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

2: Economic Foundations: Slavery and the Atlantic Sugar Complex

18 February  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

3: Slave Resistance, Emancipation and the Age of Revolutions

25 February  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

4: 'Capitalism and Slavery' or Moral Econocide, the Williams Thesis and the Question of Abolition from Above 

04 March  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

5: The Second Slavery, Postemancipation Societies, and The Question of Cuba  

11 March  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

6: The Panama Canal, Yankee Imperialism, and the Caribbean as 'Backyard' 

18 March Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

7: The Twentieth Century Caribbean: Cold War Despots

  Room 1, Faculty of History, West Road

8: The Contemporary Caribbean - Neoliberalism. Tourism, Migration