books.google.co.ukhttp://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_making_of_the_West_Indies.html?id=1aQKAQAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe making of the West Indies
Read this a long time ago. The text is intended to give students a thorough yet condensed view of West Indian history, chronicling the island's discovery, to colonisation, to slavery, emancipation, governance, and such...