Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Danielle Lerois
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Danish West Indies History, and Slavery Periodic Analysis. An Examination of Slave Life in the Danish West Indies. A Book on Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies consisted of three small islands in the Caribbean situated to the east of Puerto Rico, namely Saint Thomas since the 1660s, Saint John...
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago or a nest...
The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In 1887 Harper's Magazine sent Lafcadio Hearn to the West Indies to write a series of articles on the area. Following his time there, he wrote 'Two Years in the French West Indies', in 1890, chronicling his observations and experiences in the region. He is probably best known for his writings on Japan,...
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.
by G. Michael Flieg
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This is a compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any birdwatcher visiting Jamaica and the islands of the West Indies. It provides comprehensive coverage of 252 species of birds that inhabit the islands of the West Indies, with detailed descriptions and a colour photograph for each species....
The Hanging of Arthur Hodge
A Caribbean Anti-Slavery Milestone
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2000
The Hanging of Arthur Hodge-A Caribbean Anti-Slavery Milestone - selected for the Best Non-Fiction Book Award by The Sacramento Publishers Association - is a study of slavery in the British West Indies during the half-century before Parliaments 1834 decision to emancipate the slaves. Its focus is...
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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark the region, the authors...
by Rupert Lewis (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Richard Hart’s constant quest for political autonomy, decolonisation and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica’s leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and...
Island Lives
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities.
Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in...
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...