Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by John Masefield
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Francis Drake, the first Englishman to make himself "redoubtable to the Spaniards" on the Spanish Main, was born near Tavistock about the year 1545. He was sent to sea, as a lad, aboard a Channel coaster engaged in trade with the eastern counties, France and Zeeland. When he was eighteen...
Haiti and the Uses of America
Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries.
In the years...
by Alvin Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.
State and Revolution in Cuba
Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on...
Tropical Zion
General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of...
Rose Hall's White Witch
The Legend Of Annie Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
“There have been many versions of this legend of Rose Hall story—some good, some not so good—but this one is definitely the best…this is what happens when history and the best of fiction meet.”
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by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
*Includes historic illustrations depicting Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives.*Includes the profiles of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discusses common legends about the three famous...
Dividing Hispaniola
The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The island of Hispaniola is split by a border that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This border has been historically contested and largely porous. Dividing Hispaniola is a study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a...
A Nation for All
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate. This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes.
The Great Woman Singer
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these...
by Michael E. O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book explores the political economy of development in the British Virgin Islands — from plantations, through the evolution of a smallholding economy, to the rise of tourism. The study argues that the demise of plantation economy in the BVI ushered in a century of imperial disinterest persisting...
Race, Reality, and Realpolitik
U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti’s resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and realpolitik embedded in the political economy of U.S. interactions with Haiti that resulted in occupation....
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...