Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
Who Owns Haiti?
People, Power, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
"A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti."--Alex Dupuy, coauthor of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International...
by Mike Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Laced with the controversial spirit that the politician is known for, Many Rivers to Cross chronicles his colourful journey as a Member of Parliament on the floor of Gordon House. It reflects on the stridency of his advocacies for his constituency of Central Clarendon eloquently articulated in his...
Modern Blackness
Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated...
On the Seven Seas
Wargames Rules for the Age of Piracy and Adventure c.1500–1730
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
On the Seven Seas is a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate. The rules cover licensed privateers such as da Gama and Drake, ruthless pirates of the Spanish Main, Blackbeard, the Barbary corsairs, the wako of the Far East, not to mention the anti-pirate...
The Cayman Islands in Transition
The Politics, History and Sociology of a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
'Who is a Caymanian?' 'What should be the nature of the relationship between "established Caymanians" and “expatriate Caymanians" in arriving at a definition?'J.A. (Roy) Bodden argues that Caymanian society is based on a synergistic and symbiotic relationship between expatriates and...
by Gillian Lee-Fong
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Abebi tells the story of the incredible journey of a female warrior and apprentice healer of the Come-if-yuh-Dare Maroons, a mythical seventeenth century band of runaway slaves in the Jamaica Blue Mountains. When her idyllic life is violently upended by a series of natural and spiritual disasters,...
In Time's eye
Essays on Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Challenging received opinion and breaking new ground in Kipling scholarship, these essays on Kipling’s attitudes to the First World War, to the culture of Edwardian England, to homosexuality and to Jewishness, bring historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial...
Jah Kingdom
Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents...
The Common Wind
Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official...
by Mark Schuller
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 billion—that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that generous aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti,...
Say to These Mountains
A Biography of Faith and Ministry in Rural Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Through the true story of Wallace Turnbull, one of Haiti’s pioneers in development and missions, Say To These Mountains takes readers on a journey where grace and beauty shine into even the tightest crevices of brokenness, poverty, and loss.
Over the course of 70 years, Wallace’s work changed...
Tubal Uriah Butler of Trinidad and Tobago Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
The Road to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
This work explodes myths on the decolonization process in former British colonies of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana. Myths that masked the fact that the British colonial overlord with the full support of their local lackeys stage managed the process to ensure that compliant regimes were put in place...
Once Upon a Reef
A Dominican Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded with treasure that belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. They would...
by Veront M. Satchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The historic Hope lands was once the site of one of the island's earliest sugar estates. In 1848 the estate was dismantled and in 1909 the government acquired the property. By 1960 the landscape was transformed to a commercial, residential and educational land use.