Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional...
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora...
Empire of Neglect
The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling...
by Dick Cluster, Rafael Hernández
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." —Harry Belafonte
Since its founding...
Hating Empire Properly
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of
the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis
Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
Go de Rass to Sleep
(A Jamaican translation)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Named one of the 20 Greatest New Father's Day Gifts by Advocate.com!
"No matter what the country or the language, parents all over the world--loving, frustrated, exhausted parents--know what Adam Mansbach means. Since 2011, his comically obscene picture book has sold more than 1.5 million...
The Caribbean
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In this new edition of his crucial introduction to Caribbean history, Gad Heuman provides a comprehensive overview of the region's history, from its earliest inhabitants to contemporary political and cultural developments. Topics covered include:
- The Amerindians
- Sugary and Slavery
- Race,...
by George F. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Presenting a stunning array of beauty and biodiversity, the coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean are part playground, part research lab for the thousands of tourists, divers, and marine scientists who visit them every year. Documenting the wide array of corals at home in the warm waters of the...
by Noah Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Just imagine, white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters and the sun shining brightly over the horizon. All of this makes for a good relaxation on the beach. Whether you like swimming, nature trails, hiking or any of the other things you can do, there’s something for everyone. The Caribbean is one...
by Diana Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
What's the Caribbean vacation of your dreams? With more than 7,000 islands to choose from, it's not always an easy decision. The good news is that -- short of skiing or ice skating -- the islands of the Caribbean offer something for everyone.
It's hard to beat the Bahamas for...
by Candice Goucher
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements.
This book...
Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism
Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Celebrants of an ever-emerging 'globalization' fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one 'commodity'...
by Joyce Huber
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Nestled in the eastern Caribbean, Grenada - the largest of a three-island nation that also includes Carriacou and Petite Martinique - is the most southerly of the Windward Islands and is the gateway to the Grenadines. Renowned for its deep, sheltered harbors, the island has long been a favorite stopover...