From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Bernhard, Virginia | COPYRIGHT 1998 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Howard Johnson (Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1996. xvii plus 218pp.).

Columbus landed on one in 1492, but the hundreds of islands and islets that make up the West Indies long remained terra incognita for scholars. Only in the latter half of the twentieth century has the richness of the region where Europe met America become fertile ground for economists, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers, and historians seeking to under...