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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492–1969

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Eric Williams · 1970 · Nonfiction

Why we chose it: The classic single-volume history of the Caribbean by Eric Williams — historian and Trinidad’s first prime minister. Sweeping and unapologetically anti-colonial, it still reads the region as one long story of empire and resistance.

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