{"product_id":"empires-crossroads-carrie-gibson-9781447217282","title":"Empire's Crossroads","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term 'globalization' was coined. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters - but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists.  It is not only a story of imperial expansion - European and American - but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrie Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":50526990794995,"sku":"8880003010587","price":7.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781447217282.jpg?v=1787602969","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/empires-crossroads-carrie-gibson-9781447217282","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}