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Carrie Gibson

Biography

Carrie Gibson

Carrie Gibson completed a PhD at Cambridge University, focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution, and she has also worked as a journalist for the Guardian. She has traveled widely across the West Indies, and spent many months researching in archives there.

Carrie Gibson

Books by Carrie Gibson

Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
by Carrie Gibson - History, Nonfiction

Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In EMPIRE'S CROSSROADS, British American historian Carrie Gibson traces the story of this coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, and from discovery through colonialism to today.