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Alejandra Bronfman, On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989.

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Alejandra Bronfman, On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989.(Book review)

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Alejandra Bronfman, On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989 (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books 2007)

THE CARIBBEAN IS a paradoxical collection of nations. Travelers come from all over the globe to enjoy a multitude of pleasures on beaches and casinos in the region. Yet the world knows little about the individual islands of the Caribbean, their varied histories, or their vast interregional and international connections. Historian Alejandra Bronfman addresses this problem in On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989, an engaging and informative set of interlocking essays in which she addresses the historic place of the Caribbean as a centre of circulating people, goods, capital, and information.

Bronfman tells us early on that her intention is to put the Caribbean people at the center of their own regional narrative, noting group intentionality and action in all important phases and stages of Caribbean history. At the same time, she wants to clarify the continuing role of the Caribbean in international exchange. There are several ways to focus on these questions, some of which would require an encyclopedic discussion of each island,...

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