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Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana
Trade in the French Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave trade, the immigration of free and indentured whites, negotiations with Native American peoples, and...
Portland
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs — just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped...
Food Lovers' Guide to® Phoenix & Scottsdale
The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Savor the Flavors of Phoenix & Scottsdale
Things are different in the desert, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Greater Phoenix offers everything from sophisticated, delectable dishes to simple Southwest staples paired with a proud Old West attitude. In Food Lovers’ Guide to Phoenix...
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...
Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World
Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays on the impact of colonial slavery on France, the United...
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.
Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
by Dan & Catherine Peek
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
After getting many requests for a sequel to my book, "An American Band, the America Story" I rolled up my sleeves and started writing "Our Day In The Sun". To the thousands of AMERICA fans wanting to hear more stories of my time in Hollywood this new offering sports a Prologue of several seminal events...
by Lonely Planet, Ray Bartlett, Paul Clammer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Caribbean is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip cocktails on the colorful portside of Curacao; sail into the...
by Colin A. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University...
Caribbean Visionary
A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation traces the life of Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1880-1932), a distinguished Caribbean scholar, statesman, legislator, and novelist. Using Webber as a lens, the book outlines the Guyanese struggle for justice and equality in...
Flying Fish in the Great White North
The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians...
Colonial Phantoms
Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people
Using...
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...