Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
Breaking Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...
A Colony of Citizens
Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s,...
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XIII
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922, Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922. It was a particularly tumultuous time for Garvey and the UNIA: Garvey’s...
by Joyce Huber
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Based on Best Dives of the Caribbean, this book focuses on the Virgin Islands exclusively. Includes the latest and best dive and snorkel sites, each rated for visual excellence and marine life. The author's knowledge of the Caribbean sites is unparalleled. From sunken planes and snorkel trails to...
American Sugar Kingdom
The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar...
Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Surviving Spanish Conquest reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550.
In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Karen F. Anderson-Córdova...
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the beautiful island nation of Jamaica. Located in the Caribbean, Jamaica is visited by over one million visitors each year and has famous vacation resorts at Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios and Kingston. Finding Internet access when out and about can...
The Libertine Colony
Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking...
Puerto Rico & San Juan Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The beautiful Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is a self-governing U.S. territory in the Greater Antilles islands off the southeastern coast of mainland U.S.A. It is part of a chain of islands that includes Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola. Puerto Rico has a mild tropical climate, which is appealing...
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State
The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1998
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging...
Black Labor, White Sugar
Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands...
by Basil A. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This volume provides an important entrée into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage, inclusive of the several topics that represent the rich plurality of the Caribbean experience.
by Joyce Huber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
. . . the bible of Caribbean dive-travel. . . I highly recommend it. Christopher Lofting, The Travel Show, WOR Network Radio. Its super! . . . a great reference and we love it. Dive Travel Magazine. . . . A terrific guide. John Clayton, The Travel Show, KABC Radio, Los Angeles. . . . a must have....
by Jim Nicol
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Golf resorts--it's a specialized niche for a savvy group that knows what it wants. What they want is golf so the Nicols have devoted pages of attention to yardage and par green fees and special course features for hundreds of golf courses in the Caribbean from Bermuda and the Bahamas to Jamaica...