Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
On the Move
The Caribbean since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine,...
Caliban and the Yankees
Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island's history.
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Negotiating Caribbean Freedom
Peasants and The State in Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2005
Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or 'smallholders,' in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography...
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Pathways to Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation...
American Tropics
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists...
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...
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...
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...