Caribbean category: 2932 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...
Puerto Rico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent...
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...
by Lynne Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The earliest inhabitants called it the island of flowers and Christopher Columbus was so awed by it that he wrote "it is the best, most fertile, the softest... the most charming place in the world." You'll understand these accolades when you see Martinique for the first time. The volcanic mass is covered...
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...
by Jennifer Trainer Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
With Jennifer Trainer Thompson's CARIBBEAN COCKTAILS, escape to an island paradise is just an ice cube's throw away. You'll find yourself in libation nirvana with this thirst-quenching collection of over 60 delicious cocktail recipes, including Mojitos and Le ti' Punch, tangy tequila quenchers, and...
by Chef Ricardo
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
I was born and raised in Jamaica and grew up with a passion for cooking. I have enjoyed preparing and cooking Caribbean and European food for the last ten years. I have worked at various hotels and restaurants and I am planning to open my own establishment. I currently live in England and would like everyone to share in the Delicious flavours of the Caribbean.