Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Michael R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
One of the world’s poorest nations, Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804 following the only successful slave revolt in the Americas. As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Haiti became the...
by Badri Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial...
Haiti
Hope for a Fragile State
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
“This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the editors has established a high...
Taking Haiti
Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda...
My Stone of Hope
From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There are 27 million slaves living in the world today—more than at any time in history. Three hundred thousand of them are impoverished children in Haiti, who "stay with" families as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers, subject to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. This practice, known locally...
The U.S. Military Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Considerations for Army Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This report examines how Joint Task Force-Haiti (JTF-Haiti) supported the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in Haiti. It focuses on how JTF-Haiti was organized, how it conducted Operation Unified Response, and how the U.S. Army supported that effort. The analysis includes a review of...
by Daniel P Mannix
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
“The guilt rests on humanity itself. . . on the apparently inexhaustible capacity for greed and numbness of heart and the infliction of suffering that survives in the nature of man.” ~Malcolm Cowley
Africans were brought to North and South America as the result of...
Rambling on Saint Martin
A Witnessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Grard M. Hunt is a man without a country, trying to piece together in essays, editorials and scholarship a country of his own from three quite separate nations: French Colonial by birth and upbringing; United States by military service and higher education; and Canada by profession in teaching and...
The Big Truck That Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this...
Walking on Fire
Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture,...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
There can scarcely anything be found in the literature of our language, more wild and wonderful, than the narrative contained in this volume. The extraordinary career of Captain Kidd, a New-York merchant, the demoniac feats of those fiends in human form, Bonnet, Barthelemy, and Lolonois; the romantic...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting...
by Jenn Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
THE KEEPERS OF THE GHOST BIRD chronicles the astonishing rediscovery of the Bermuda petrel, believed to have been extinct since 1625. It is the story of a tenacious bird and the naturalists who now fight to save it, amid the degradation of habitat in Bermuda. Dean’s tale of unlikely resurrection...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
*Includes historic illustrations depicting the three women and important people and places in their lives.*Includes a profile of Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discusses common legends about the three women, separating fact from fiction.*Includes...