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 |