The Dominica Story

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island is a history book from 1975, written by famed Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch. Originally presented as a miniseries for Radio Dominica (now DBS Radio) in 1974, the inaugural edition covered every aspect of local history from prehistory up to the then-present (the island's 1967 Associated Statehood).

The book's first edition of 18 chapters was an immediate bestseller 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 and Spain
5. Land of Two Nations
6. France Moves In
7. The British in Dominica
8. The Plantation
9. The French Return
10. The Fighting Maroons
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 Eric Williams