Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
Pirate Hunters
Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...
The Creole Affair
The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole—a slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orleans...
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent...
by Paul Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort.”-Financial Times
The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos
In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction...
Carnival
Culture in Action – The Trinidad Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating...
by Michael A. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“I have taught ... for two generations and was a reading coordinator. ... Being an avid reader, I can honestly say that this is the best literary work I have read.” A. Bryan, Amazon.com. Five star reviewAs the world’s attention was focused on the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic...
The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto
Incarcerated but not Silenced
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
As strange as this may sound , I hope you do not enjoy this book, I hope it disturbs you. I hope after reading you realize there is something wrong with Jamaica that needs to be fixed......I hope you will never look at a ghetto person the same again. I hope you will never see a young girl in a compromising...
by Dave St. Aubyn Gosse
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Following the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the failure of the Jamaican planters to implement labour reforms; production, productivity and the health of the enslaved Africans continued to decline.
by Keith C. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success highlights inventors of color from over seventy countries and five continents. This book took over twenty years to research and documents black inventors from 1769 - 2011. It a must read for parents, students, teachers and librarians. It is most indepth study done on inventors of color to date.
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
A Letter from Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.
A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages...
by Beverley Manley
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
From stationmaster's daughter to wife of one of Jamaica's mot charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley's life has been an odyssey.
As a young girl, starved of her mother's love because she was darker that her sibblings and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
The Pirate King
The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A compelling account of history's most famous pirate.
The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature-as...