Caribbean category: 2932 books
Fatal Revolutions
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations...
by Bruce Conord
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Braulio Carrillo National Park, Rara Avis Reserve, La Selva & Sarapiquí, Tortuguero National Park, Barra Colorado & Parismina, Puerto Limón, Cahuita, Puerto Viejo these are a few of the places to see along the Caribbean Coast. This guide tells you everything you need to know. Here are some review...
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the...
Slavery behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia...
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
The information in this ebook on various aspects of The Virgin Islands and subjects related to them and the Caribbean is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
I hope that it will interest those...
by Roland Reimer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
'Walk Good' is an adventure travel story chronicling the experiences of the author in Negril, Jamaica. It's an escape to the sunny beaches, the seas and the mountain back roads of the island. The culture of the island, including the food, the music, a smattering of history and the character...
by Rebecca Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Belize is located in Central America to the south of Mexico and is an English-speaking country with a diverse and fun culture. This former colony of British Honduras offers lush jungles, beautiful beaches, attractive reefs, delicious food and splendid ancient Mayan ruins.
On the Move
The Caribbean since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine,...
Caliban and the Yankees
Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island's history.
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by Chuck McAllister
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
At the age of nineteen, biology student Chuck McAllister left behind his comfortable but uninspiring suburban life to seek adventure, clarity, and some kind of meaningful existence on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. There he met Suvali—clever, bright-eyed, and raven-haired—and his life changed...
by Humphrey Metzgen, John Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Spotlights of the deeds and harships of West Indian soldiers long engaged in Africa, the Middle East, and Caribbean.
Negotiating Caribbean Freedom
Peasants and The State in Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2005
Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or 'smallholders,' in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography...
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Pathways to Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation...
American Tropics
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists...