Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books

Epic colonial architecture, passionate young salsa dancers, Chef Guevara murals, beaches covered with fine white sand, swaying sugar cane fields - reflections of Cuba are as stunning as the Eternal. This is an island of unique historical heritage floating amid a sea of ​​flood globalization. Get now the Ultimate Travel Guide to Cuba and enjoy a great holiday with it.

The Dominican Republic is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the world, especially in the winter months, when much of the northern hemisphere is covered by the harsh winter, but here the sun continues to stroke its warm rays. Local environment is an example of a tropical paradise. Get...

A Tourists Guide To The Cayman Islands This book covers several topics including: Cayman Islands’ Best Places To Visit Cayman Islands - A Unique Tropical Experience Cayman Islands - An Abbreviated Travel Guide Cayman Islands’ Perfect Weather And Geography For Vacationers King...

We wrote Island Voices Reggae & New Jamaican Music for the tourist and visitor to Jamaica who uses a smartphone or digital reading device. It links to over 300 songs and 200 artists so the reader/listener can sample the song or buy immediately via the Internet. We promise you'll have more...

An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family. There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes,...

In 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex the Spanish possession of Cuba, Dana traveled there and visited Havana, a sugar plantation, a bullfight, and various churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons, a trip documented in his book To Cuba and Back.

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two...

Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice...

Among fights for the New World colonization and the commercial supremacy, a young Irishman named Sidvester O'Neill sets off for the Caribbean Sea heading to the isle of Puerto Dorado. He aims to find his brother Alexander, who left years before, and take him back home. But his journey will have unexpected...

Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the...

By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the...

African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict....

The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa...

This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Northern Bahamas and covers Andros and New Providence. 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...