"Balkanisation" dit K.Gyssels Caraïbe francophone ? anglophone ? hispanophone ou lusophone ?
Caraïbe insulaire ou continentale ? Grande et petite Caraïbe ?
Définition économique :
Combien d'états appartiennent au Caricom ? à l'AEC ?
1ère présentation sur le site du conseil régional de la Guadeloupe
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De toutes les façons, la Caraïbe à laquelle je pense toujours est insulaire, composée des Grandes et des Petites Antilles.
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3è définition, celle de Frank Moya Pons, dans sa préface à son History of the Caribbean, "Plantations, Trade and War in the Atlantic World" :
"The Caribbean is both a sea and an archipelago. The sea is enclosed by the
continental land mass of Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. Most of the archipelago's islands are located between Florida and the mouth of the Oricono River, but, because of
longsanding economic and social connections, some regions like the Gianas and Belize, are normally considered to have shared their history with the Caribbean.
(...) As the doctrine of balance of power came to prevail in Europe, so it did in the West Indies, and the European powers eventually reach an unstable equilibrium that produced a "fragmented"
Caribbean along political lines. We thus have today cultural zones that can be loosely described as the French, the Spanish, the British and the Deutsch Caribbean. (...) The preceding
narrative summarizes in essence the contents of this boook : the economic and social evolution of the Caribbean as an organic entity, and its functionnal integration into the Atlantic economy.
This approach, I believe, is useful in counteracting the perception -derived from the enormous mountain of books and scholarly articles published about the Caribbean- of a kaleidoscopic
fragmantation of the region's history. (...) Despite the seemingly disparate nature of the colonies, they produced basically the same products for the world market (...) for all these reasons,
this book focuses on the structural economic continuities of the Caribbean societies from that wide perspective that the eminent French historian Fernand Braudel once called the longue durée. "
L'arc antillais du nord au sud :
********************Les Grandes Antilles*******************
Les Bahamas à quelques encablures au sud est de la Floride
Cuba au sud ouest de la Floride
Les îles Turques et Caïques (Turks and Caicos) le nouvel El Dorado des vacances des Américains riches au sud-est de Cuba et au nord d'Haïti
Les îles Caïman au sud ouest de Cuba
La Jamaïque au sud de Cuba
Hispaniola , HaIti - République Dominicaine
Porto-Rico
Les îles vierges britanniques
Les îles vierges américaines
***********************Les Petites Antilles****************
Anguilla,
Antigua et Barbuda
Montserrat
Guadeloupe
Dominique
Martinique
Sainte Lucie
Saint Vincent, Les Grenadines
Barbade
Grenade
Trinidad et Tobago
a l'ouest, de T&T, proche de la côte du Venezuela, Aruba et les Antilles néerlandaises
