Reviews

“ In this, his latest book, Jeb Sprague has demonstrated without doubt that he is one of the premier analysts of the Caribbean, a sprawling region that has been of profound significance for the North American mainland for centuries. With a deft writing style and a profound penchant for sophisticated analysis, Sprague has written a book that will fascinate students of economics, history, political science, and Caribbean studies alike.”
—Gerald Horne, author of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean

“ This important new book provides a comprehensive political economy of global capitalism in the Caribbean. From the ecological impact of the cruise ship industry to growing forced labor migration, Sprague reveals the devastating impact of globalization in the region and underlines the need for cross-border strategies to counteract it.”
—Sujatha Fernandes, author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela

“ As the first book specifically on the transnational capitalist class in the Caribbean, Sprague documents the sweeping changes to the region’s political economy over the late-20th and early-21st centuries. He skillfully analyses the particularities and contradictions of this process, its different populations, industries, and institutions. This book reinvigorates an interest in the political economy of the region, showing how capitalist globalization combines long histories of colonial capitalism with the contemporary role of U.S. imperialism and new supranational organizations. This is a vital read not only for scholars and students interested in the sociology of the Caribbean basin but to all those interested in global studies and international political economy.”
—Leslie Sklair, author of The Transnational Capitalist Class

" It is heartening to see Sprague digging deep into the eternal verities of class and power relations. This social cartography of global capitalism in the Caribbean is both exhilaratingly wide ranging and reassuringly detailed and well researched. While the author describes a number of labor, social, and political movements that conflict and engage in different ways with the hegemonic discourse and increasingly repressive manipulations of the transnational elites, his conclusion is somber: the future is either a postcapitalist progressive world or barbarism."
—Ankie Hoogvelt, author of Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development

" Jeb Sprague’s new book Globalizing the Caribbean makes an outstanding, innovative and timely contribution to the scholarly literature on the political economy of the Caribbean in the moment of global capitalism. The study spans the hispanophone, francophone and anglophone Caribbean, and pays careful attention to problems and challenges that affect the entire region. The book, which targets college students, scholars, policy makers and others in the Caribbean and beyond, provides an intellectually stimulating political economy perspective that offers a sound alternative to the cultural/literary turn in Caribbean studies in an updated manner for the 21st century."—Hilbourne Watson, editor of Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean