ABSTRACT
A scholarly outline is provided by J. H. Parry and P. M. Sherlock, A Short History of the West Indies (Macmillan, 3rd edn cl and pb, 1968). For good briefer introductions see F. R. Augier, The Making of the West Indies (Longman, 1964) and D. A. G. Waddell, The West Indies and the Guianas (Prentice-Hall, 1967). The British Caribbean can be studied in W. L. Burn, The British West Indies (Hutchinson, 1951), a good synthesis, and in Sir A. C. Burns, History of the British West Indies (Allen & U., 2nd edn 1965), a more detailed narrative. For the French Caribbean see G. Hanotaux and A. Martineau (eds) Histoire des colonies françaises (Paris, Pion, 6 vols, 1929-34).
