Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean
1861-1898
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In this book, _lvarez-L-pez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican...
by Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...
Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...
Slavery behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia...
by Benerson Little
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic clich?. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves, and paradoxically...
The Structure of Cuban History
Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as...
by Damien Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The Bermuda Triangle. The Devil’s Triangle. Call it what you will but this area off the coast of the southwestern United States has stirred peoples’ imaginations for hundreds of years.
You won’t find it on any official maps, which hasn’t actually stopped would-be cartographers from...
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross...
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not...
by Sylvia Wynter
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life in the utopian, anti-colonialist community of Hebron. However, a grab for power ensues when it is revealed that Rose, the wife of leader of the Church of New Believers, who has taken...
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.As The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows, ambitious planters throughout the Greater Caribbean hired a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based...
by Matt D. Childs
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial,...
Netherlands Antilles
The People, History and Cultural differences, Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Netherlands Antilles. The People, History and Cultural differences, Tourism. Despite the fact that these six islands have been and continue to be politically tied to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, each island has its own particular territory and history. Their differences go beyond flags, as they...