Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-8537-0 • Paperback • December 1997 • $70.00 • (£47.95)
978-0-585-08078-9 • eBook • January 2000 • $66.50 • (£44.95)
Thomas Klak is associate professor of geography and director of the Latin American studies program at Miami University of Ohio.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Thirteen Theses on Globalization and Neoliberalism
Chapter 3 Development Models and Neoliberal Policies
Chapter 4 Editor's Introduction
Chapter 5 Misguided Directions, Mismanaged Models, or Missed Paths?
Chapter 6 Microstates in a Macroworld
Chapter 7 Trade Policies and the Hemispheric Integration Process
Chapter 8 How States Sell Their Countries and People
Chapter 9 Caribbean Development Policies in a Neoliberal Era: Case Studies
Chapter 10 Editor's Introduction
Chapter 11 Caribbean Tourism and Agriculture: New Linkages in the Global Era?
Chapter 12 Jamaica's Export Information Processing Services: Neoliberal Niche or Structural Limitation?
Chapter 13 Dominica's Economic Diversification: Microstates in a Neoliberal Era?
Chapter 14 Cuban Socialism in Crisis: A Neoliberal Solution?
Chapter 15 Contemporary Caribbean Adaptation Through Migration
Chapter 16 Editor's Introduction
Chapter 17 The Political Economy of Contemporary Migration
Chapter 18 The Spell of the Cascadura: West Indian Return Migration
Chapter 19 Future Prospects
Chapter 20 Editor's Introduction
Chapter 21 From Neoliberalism to Sustainable Development?
A thorough, serious, and scholarly analysis of the impact of recent global economic tendencies on the Caribbean. . . . For those wishing intelligent and well-documented research and commentary on the micro- and macro-consequences of unfettered economic globalization, including those who support such processes but are willing to consider fair criticism, this collection will be extremely useful....
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Klak's thinking is original and refreshing. . . . [His] first chapter ['Thirteen theses on globalization and neoliberalism'] is worth the price of the book. . . . Whether one teaches or studies suburban U.S. communities, historic preservation in the Islamic realm, or housing markets in China, each thought-provoking thesis lends itself to other important issues related to our shrinking world. Scholars will welcome these insights and instructors will easily be able to draw a lecture out of each thesis. . .. [The book] has a master bibliography that will serve as a benchmark in development and Caribbean studies readings for years to come. . . . Human geography and development studies are all the richer because of this stellar work...
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This volume examines the ways political, economic, and social geographic factors are affecting the development of the region. The book's original approach should be of great interest to geographers, economists, and other scholars who are interested in the Caribbean or postmodern processes....
— Gary Elbow
...the case study chapters assemble a lot of new information and will certainly be cited in other studies.
— Anthony Payne, University of Sheffield
This volume provides a thorough, serious, and scholarly analysis of the impact of the recent global economic tendencies on the Carribean.....
— J.L. Dietz