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The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Northern Bahamas - Part II - The Biminis and the Berry Islands
Including Information on Crossing the Gulf Stream and the Great Bahama Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Northern Bahamas and covers the Biminis and the Berry Islands.
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, Stephen...
From Many Cultures, One Nation
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Belizean Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Children possess national and ethnic identity, whether or not we want them to, and often that identity includes elements of their own devising.
Since independence, the Belizean government has sought to promote a national Belizean identity by recognizing the cultures of its multiple ethnic groups,...
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...
by Joy Lee Larocque
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Joy Lee Larocque, impressed from early childhood with a highly creative imagination, presents her interpretation of "the magic of the Bahamas."
Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America
Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern...
THE PIRATES OF THE WEST INDIES IN 17TH CENTURY
The True Story of the Bold Pirates of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This eBook edition of "The Pirates of the West Indies in 17th Century" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Clarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and a pioneer in initiating the study of Latin American...
White Fury
A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth...
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks....
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Turks and Caicos Islands - Part II - The Turks Islands
Including Grand Turk, North Creek Anchorage, Hawksnest Anchorage, Salt Cay, and Great Sand Cay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Turks and Caicos and covers the Turks Islands.
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, Stephen J. Pavlidis has...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands - Part V - Grenada
including Carriacou, Île de Ronde, and Kick 'em Jenny
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part V of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers Grenada, including Carriacou, Île de Ronde, and Kick ‘em Jenny.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To Puerto Rico - Part III - The East Coast
Including Palmas del Mar, Puerto del Rey Marina, Fajardo, Cayo Obispo, and Las Croabas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to Puerto Rico and covers the east coast of Puerto Rico, including Palmas del Mar, Puerto del Rey Marina, Fajardo, Cayo Obispo, and Las Croabas
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising...
by Karl Kahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
For a relatively small country, Costa Rica has an unusually diverse range of eco-systems to explore and adventurous activities to try. You'll visit rugged wilderness preserves and sleepy beach towns, spectacular orchid gardens and mineral hot springs at the foot of a recently-active volcano. There...