Caribbean category: 2932 books
Planning the Past
Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, and earthquakes. Anita M. Waters argues that the plans for Port Royal's...
Seeking Imperialism's Embrace
National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted to join the French nation as departments (Départments d'outre mer, or DOMs). Eschewing independence...
by Francisco Morales Padrón, Armando García de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Spanish Trinidad is the first ever history of the 300 year span of the Spanish period of Trinidad, written from a strictly Spanish perspective. From the encounter of Christopher Columbus with the first Trinidadian Amerindians during the summer of 1498, to the handover of the island to the British...
The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later—Looking Backward, Looking Forward
A Caribbean Story About National Tragedy, the Burden of Colonialism, and the Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
On a sunny afternoon in August of 1970, the Eastern Caribbean was, without warning, confronted with a terrible and tragic event. The Christena, a well-used ferry that regularly crossed the eleven-mile expanse between the twin islands if St. Kitts and Nevis sank. The two British colonial societies...
Race, Culture, and Identity
Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining...
Enterprising Women
Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction...
by Rae Ellen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In My Next Husband Will Be Normal – A St. John Adventure, Lee and her husband ditch their sailboat and fly to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a down payment for a mom and pop business on St. John. The plan: when they aren’t sewing canvas bags at their little shop, The Canvas Factory, they’ll...
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...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
One of the most popular destinations for Americans in the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands lie between the sun-kissed beaches of Cancún...
by Blair Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Based on our larger guide to all of the Bahamas, this one focuses on the Acklins & Crooked Island, the Turks & Caicos, Berry Islands, Cat Island, Inaguas, Long Island, San Salvador & Rum Cay. These islands are not for those vacationers who are looking for the high life, nightlife or wild...
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
In an enthralling blend of travel literature and history, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro provides an insightful portrait of a mesmerizing place. Building on the in-depth exploration of Cuba's society, culture, and politics that formed part of his recent book, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, Jelly-Schapiro...
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part I of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers the island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years,...
by Trevor Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2018
The stories about pirates as we have come to know them have created a picture of adventure and grandeur, but this was never further from the reality of how pirates really existed. Their lives were generally cruel, violent, and very short even for the more successful ones. A pirates life at sea, usually...
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...