Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Edwidge Danticat
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection
Growing up in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat kept well clear of carnival—terrified by the stories of danger and debauchery that her uncle told her. Decades later, a grown woman and accomplished author, she returns home to find out what she’s been missing.
In this...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Dominica Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Bahamas Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected.
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The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866
The Story of One of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Ever Impact the Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
In October 1866, a powerful Category 4 hurricane struck the Bahamian Islands. With winds well over 140 miles per hour and even higher gusts that toppled trees, sank ships, peeled away rooftops, and destroyed vital infrastructures, the massive storm battered the islands with great ferocity. When the...
by Stephen J Pavlidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Exuma Cays and covers the Exuma Park.
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 written more...
Tropical Babylons
Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive...
The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932
The Story of Two of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Impact the Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Hurricanes have long been a fact of life in the Bahamas. With extensive exposed coastlines jutting out of the Atlantic and uniquely flat lands and shallow coastal waters, these islands had seen many tempests before there was a Bahamas as we know it today.
Hurricanes have shaped the islands...
by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Blonde, beautiful, and now missing, Robyn Gardner took a secret trip to Aruba that no one in her family knew about until two days after she vanished without a trace.
Tina Watson was a young and pretty newlywed found dead at the bottom of the ocean just one week into a dream Australian honeymoon....
by Suzanne Van Atten
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Relax beneath swaying palm trees, kayak through bioluminescent bays, or dance the night away to the sounds of salsa: Experience the Island of Enchantment with Moon Puerto Rico. Inside you'll find:
Flexible itineraries ranging from the best of Puerto Rico in one week to one day in San Juan, including...
The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928
The Story of the Second Deadliest Hurricane in American History and the Deadliest Hurricane in Bahamian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
If you live in the Caribbean or Florida, youve probably heard tales about the Great Okeechobee Hurricane, which killed thousands and left behind wide swaths of destruction. Also known as the Saint Felipe (Phillip) Segundo Hurricane, it developed in the far eastern Atlantic before making its way over...
Cul de Sac
Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth...
An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom
Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Tracing conflicts over...
Dollar Diplomacy by Force
Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventions—and ended up achieving exactly the opposite. Using military and government records from the United States and the Dominican...
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and...