Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Lonely Planet, Ray Bartlett, Paul Clammer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
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Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Caribbean is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip cocktails on the colorful portside of Curacao; sail into the...
by Lynne Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The earliest inhabitants called it the island of flowers and Christopher Columbus was so awed by it that he wrote "it is the best, most fertile, the softest... the most charming place in the world." You'll understand these accolades when you see Martinique for the first time. The volcanic mass is covered...
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...
The Life of Captain Cipriani
An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945). As...
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This is a seventeenth century translation of a "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias", an impassioned tirade against Spanish behavior across South America and the Caribbean, recording a litany of horrors committed against the indigenous people there. In...
by Colin A. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
*Examines the lives, legends and legacies of the Caribbean's most famous and successful pirates. *Explains how the myths and legends of pirates like Blackbeard created the instantly recognizable pirate stereotypes today. *Includes pictures depicting the pirates and important people, places, and events...
On the Rim of the Caribbean
Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents?
In...
by Lynne Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the center of the Lesser Antilles. The main island is actually two irregular ovals hinged together like an open oyster shell. Smaller outer islands float nearby like spilled pearls in the turquoise sea. Grande-Terre, the eastern half of the shell, is basically a flat...
The Spice Necklace
My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes offers “a mouthwatering slice of Caribbean culture” in this blend of travel memoir and cookbook (New York Post).
While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills...
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...
Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World
Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays on the impact of colonial slavery on France, the United...
by Edward Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Frank Collymore: A Biography is the first book-length biography of Frank Collymore, Barbadian educator, poet, editor, stage actor, mentor and tireless promoter of West Indies Literature. Born at Woodville Cottage in Saint Michael in 1893, Collymore became an invaluable contributor to the arts and...
by Brian Meeks (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire...