History Department

Frank F. Taylor

associate professor

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Telephone: (617) 552-3239

Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 456

Email: frank.taylor@bc.edu

Education

Docteur es sciences politiques, Universite de Geneve, 1976

Fields of Interest

Economic, social, political and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought Academic Profile Professor Taylor taught for thirteen years at the University of the West Indies and served on all three campuses-Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad. In the United States he taught for the 1989-90 academic year at James Madison College (Michigan State University) and from 1990 to 1993 at Hamilton College.

Representative Publications

  • "Whose World Order? Cuba vs. Pax Americana in the Persian Gulf," Socialism and Democracy (1996)
  • To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry (1993)
  • "Cuba's Relations with the Soviet Union since October, 1962: A Retrospect" Boletin de estudios Latinoamericanos v del Caribe (1989)
  • "Revolution, Race and Some Aspects of Cuba's Foreign Relations since 1959," Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, 18 (1988)
  • "Peacekeeping in 'Paradise': The Arming of the Eastern Caribbean," TransAfrica Forum (1986)