Caribbean Contours

Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture

by Sidney W. Mintz (Editor), Sally Price (Editor)

In Caribbean Contours eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demographics and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.

264 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 1985

About the author

Sidney W. Mintz was Research Professor and William L. Straus, Jr., Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past, among others.