Question.1214 - Reading Response 4: Knight, part 2 "Caribbean nation-building" No unread replies.No replies. Post a response to Week 4 reading the chapters 7 through 11 of Franklin Knight's book, The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. Write between 500 and 600 words (80% credit): Give a summary of the book: who? what? when? where? What are the basic ideas? (20%) Give your critical (and personal) reaction to the readings. Which things do you agree with? Which do you disagree with? What did you learn that was new? (20%). What do you think of Knight's distinction between 'settler' colonies, and 'exploitative' colonies? What do you think he left out? Did he demonstrate any biases regarding Caribbean history? (20%).
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