Caribbean category: 2932 books
by Philip Nanton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and...
by Fred Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Daddy Sharpe is a unique work of Caribbean fiction. It is the result of five years of historical research, details of which have been used to recreate a narrative of the life of one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, Samuel Sharpe. Locked in prison, awaiting a sentence of certain execution, Samuel Sharpe...
Hispaniola
Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
In 1492 the island of Hispaniola was inhabited by the Taino, an Indian group whose ancestors had moved into the Caribbean archipelago from lowland South America more than 1,500 years before. They were organized politically into large cacicazgos, or chiefdoms, comprising 70 or more villages under the...
On Land and Sea
Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native...
History of the Americas and Caribbean
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In the book, Kanski offers readers key information on the history of the countries and military...
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroquecharts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the...
The Company They Kept
Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations....
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean
Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice...
by Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the...
Passages and Afterworlds
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies...
Taste of Guyanese Cuisine
Caribbean Cuisine, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2018
Guyanese cuisine is an amazing combination of the flavors of the Caribbean and South America. The name Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning "Land of Many Waters". It's not only a land of many waters, but also of many tastes. Guyana's cuisine is very similar to Caribbean cooking and incorporates...
by John Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The best places to stay and eat in the Leewards are described here, with abundant pictures, often little-known except by celebrities and the wealthiest travelers. Anguilla, Barbuda, Antigua, Nevis, St. Barts, St. Kitts, St. Martin - all are described. With colorful insights into the history of each...
Jamaica - Naturally
A Guide for Today's Active Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Jamaica – Naturally, A Guide for Today’s Active Travelers, richly illustrated with over 50 color photographs, is the first e-book of a series, entitled The Caribbean – Naturally: Island Guides for Active Travelers. Over the last decade and even the last few years demand from active travelers and...