Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
The Imagined Island
History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these...
Caribbean Geography
A Scholarly Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
The islands and seascapes gracing the Caribbean Sea have long been areas of interest and research for geographers and other scholars from around the world. The lands and waters of the Caribbean region have stimulated an extensive body of research and writing across the many fields of geography. This...
This Is Cuba
An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December"
"Fascinating." —Forbes
Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain....
Caribbean New Orleans
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean...
Isles of Noise
Sonic Media in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion...
Cuba
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
L'île de Cuba, la plus grande de l'archipel des Caraïbes (110 922 km2), occupe une position stratégique à 77 km de Haïti et à 140 km de la Jamaïque. Longue de 1 200 km – alors que sa largeur varie de 32 à 145 km –, Cuba est très proche du continent, des États-Unis et du Mexique …
by Kenneth Coates
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Saint Kitts and Nevis are a pair of tropical islands in the Caribbean, about one-third of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.
St-Kitts and Nevis changed hands many times between English...
by Renee Petrillo
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
“It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing…”
If you...
Missives from Maravida
A Family's Caribbean Sailboat Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
298 photos! Missives from MARAVIDA: A Family’s Caribbean Sailing Adventure documents the extraordinary journey I took with my husband and our two children. Our adventure is chronicled in the e-mail messages I sent to family and friends after we met up with MARAVIDA in Trinidad. It is supplemented...
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer...
by Norel Spence
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Barbados Overview Fringed bу talcum powder-white oceanfront's аnd azure seas, Barbados fulfils thе clichéd image оf аn exotic Caribbean isle, hоwevеr peel back the exterior аnd thе tropical isle offers fаr mоrе thаn а mere seaside holiday location. Enhanced with 113km (70 miles)...
Island People
The Caribbean and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce...
Radical Moves
Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets...
We Dream Together
Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates...