Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Gabriel-Jacques Laisné de Villévêque, Cyrille Bissette
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
L'armée indigène
La défaite de Napoléon en Haïti
Language: French
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Qui, en dehors d’Haïti, a déjà entendu parler de la bataille de Vertières, point d’aboutissement spectaculaire et sanglant de la guerre d’indépendance haïtienne? Qui sait que cet affrontement s’est soldé, en 1803, par l’une des pires défaites napoléoniennes? Que les Noirs s’y...
The Prophet and Power
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept to power in 1991 as the champion of Haiti's impoverished majority and their demand for a more just, equal, and participatory...
Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges...
by Roger Jaffray
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Cet ouvrage est le résultat d’une étude sur les transports maritimes, les armateurs et entreprises d’armement, leurs navires et leurs équipages dans l’archipel guadeloupéen. Au cours d’une enquête pointilleuse, l’auteur a dépouillé les archives locales de presque tout le siècle écoulé,...
La isla de la fantasia
El colonialismo, la explotacion y la traicion a Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Un recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU.
A dos años del huracán María, Puerto Rico aún sigue recuperándose de la destrucción física de la tormenta y el colapso de la infraestructura resultante. La devastación agravó los efectos dañinos...
Tourism and Language in Vieques
An Ethnography of the Post-Navy Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
After more than sixty years of occupation by the U.S. Navy and intensive community struggles, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques was finally returned to civilian control in 2003. But, as this book documents, the Viequenses’ struggles were far form over after the departure of the Navy. The Viequenses...
Scottish History
A Concise Overview of the History of Scotland From Start to End
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Explore the History of Scotland From Start to End...
Are you interested in the romance and drama of Scottish history?
Are tales of Robert the Bruce and the wars against England just footnotes in your wider historical knowledge?
This book provides a concise and impressive chronicle!
Scotland...
by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Esta es una recopilación de los diarios de Colón, tomada por Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, escrita en español antiguo, en la que se relatan los hechos en torno al viaje que llevaría al descubrimiento de América, desde la partida hasta el día de regreso a España.
The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
A Study of Amphibious Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the...
by Charles Frostin
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Constituée au xviie siècle par l’absorption du tiers d’Hispaniola (ou Santo Domingo), grande Antille auparavant possession espagnole, la « Partie française de l’Isle Saint-Domingue » connut au siècle suivant un développement économique impressionnant. Peuplée en 1681 de 2 000 esclaves...
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica
The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man...
by Manuel Fernández Juncos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Manuel Fernández Juncos nos lleva por un delicado y profundo estudio del corazón en estas obras. Cómo por ejemplo la ilusión de “EL PRIMER IDILIO”, el gran amor de una madre en “AL REDEDOR DE UNA CUNA” y en “TRIUNFAR DESPUÉS DE MORIR”. El amor puro y verdadero en...
by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Terrazo es una magnífica colección de historias cortas puertorriqueñas publicadas por primera vez en el 1947 que ilustran la vida en el campo durante el alza de las industrias azucareras americanas. Mucho tiene que decir la obra sobre el sufrimiento general del trabajador y jíbaro del campo, aplicando...