Empire's Crossroads
19 June 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as...
Details
19 June 2014456 pages
9780230766181Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Vivid and thought-provokingSpectator
Carrie Gibson manages to weave 500 years of complex history into a brilliant narrative ... [A] strikingly assured debut.Observer
Carrie Gibson has written a compelling history of the Caribbean, rightly placing it at the heart of European imperialism. This is a gripping account by a gifted scholar and story-tellerTristram Hunt
A fine introduction to the history of a turbulent and fascinating regionThe Times
