The Dominica Story: A History of the Island is a history

History

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 book from 1975, written by famed Dominica

Dominica

Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

n historian

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 Lennox Honychurch

Lennox Honychurch

Lennox Honychurch is Dominica's most noted historian and a politician. He is well-known for writing 1975's The Dominica Story, the 1980s textbook series The Caribbean People, and the 1991 travel book Dominica: Isle of Adventure...

. Originally presented as a miniseries

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 for Radio Dominica (now DBS Radio) in 1974, the inaugural edition covered every aspect of local history from prehistory

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 up to the then-present (the island's 1967 Associated Statehood).

The book's first edition of 18 chapters was an immediate bestseller

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 upon its release. A revised version with 21 chapters was printed in 1984. A commercial edition, this time with 24 chapters and focusing on local events in the 1980s and 1990s, was published in 1995 by the Caribbean imprint of Macmillan.

Chapters in the 1995 edition

1. An Island of Fire
2. The First Settlers
3. The Kalinago - The "Island Carib"
4. Columbus
   Christopher Columbus
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    and Spain
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5. Land of Two Nations
6. France
   France
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    Moves In
7. The British
   United Kingdom
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    in Dominica
8. The Plantation
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9. The French Return
10. The Fighting Maroons
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11. Revolution and Ransom
12. The Last Maroon War
13. Peace and Freedom
14. The Years of Change
15. An Unsettled Society
16. New Men, New Energy
17. Between Two Wars
18. The Church
19. Development and Welfare
20. After God, The Land
21. Statehood
22. Towards Independence
23. A Stormy Path
24. Inventing a Nation

See also

• From Columbus to Castro: A History of the Caribbean, by former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
  
   Eric Williams
  Eric Williams
  Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...