Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Timothy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the...
No Man's Land
Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers...
Islands of Resistance
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
*Includes historic illustrations of Anne Bonny and important people in her life.*Includes a profile of Anne Bonny from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discusses common legends about Anne Bonny and what is known and unknown about her. *Includes a Bibliography for...
La isla encallada
El Caribe colombiano en el archipiélago del Caribe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 29, 2015
El Caribe está lejos de ser un conjunto de territorios uniformes en el campo de la cultura. Luego del énfasis en la búsqueda de puntos de encuentro, es hora de otorgar herramientas que permitan tener sobre aquel una mejor comprensión. La reinvención del Caribe colombiano pasa por hacerse las...
Insurgent Cuba
Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of...
by Laurent Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption....
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
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To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,”...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 in the French colony of Saint Domingue, when a group of slaves rebelled in order to secure their freedom and the end of slavery. In the midst of the French Revolution, slaves took advantage of volatile political, racial, and social circumstances.
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The Spirits and the Law
Vodou and Power in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits...
Offshore Vegas
How the Mob <Br>Brought Revolution to Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
Most people have heard of Fidel Castro, but what was Cuba like before Castro? Who was Fulgencio Batista? How did he gain control of the country and why did he need to be replaced? What created the conditions under which someone like Castro was able to gain ? and maintain the support of the people?
This...
Masters of War
Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes...
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
La Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias es un libro escrito por el dominico español Bartolomé de las Casas a mediados del siglo XVI. Como su nombre indica, se trata de un texto en el que el fraile se propone denunciar los destructivos efectos que tuvo para los pueblos indígenas...
Puerto Rico in the American Century
A History since 1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the...