Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
Dominica, Caribbean Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The Commonwealth of Dominica is a beautiful island paradise set in the Caribbean Sea. Discovered by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday in 1493, he named the island Dominica, meaning Sunday in Latin. With lush green forests, picturesque waterfalls, miles of hiking trails, volcanic mountains, thermal...
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833
Atlantic Archipelagos
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural...
The Experiential Caribbean
Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth...
Traveler's Paradise - ABC Islands
Travel Guide for ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Do you want to explore every single aspect of the Caribbean life? Then your next vacation should be in the ABC islands!
Arubа, Bonaire аnd Curacao are three exotic Caribbean islands with a colorful Dutch colonial architecture. Since they used to be ruled by the Dutch, many elements of the...
by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Puerto Rico is a self-governing territory that belongs to the United States. Located in the north-eastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands its total area is 9 104 square kilometres and its population is 3,994,259 inhabitants. The capital is San Juan. Puerto...
by Francisco Morales Padrón, Armando García de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Spanish Trinidad is the first ever history of the 300 year span of the Spanish period of Trinidad, written from a strictly Spanish perspective. From the encounter of Christopher Columbus with the first Trinidadian Amerindians during the summer of 1498, to the handover of the island to the British...
Race, Culture, and Identity
Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining...
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations.
According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has...
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Remitting the Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...
Connecting Histories
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading...
Reproducing the British Caribbean
Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Written by locals, Fodor’s InFocus Aruba is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit to Aruba. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease. Join Fodor’s in exploring one of the most...