Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books

Washington Irving read Don Quixote as a child, sparking a lifelong interest in Spain. When published, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada—a history of the fifteenth-century Spanish war against the Moors in Granada—was acclaimed for its engaging writing style, which made it seem less like a history and more like an adventure tale.

A bite-size introduction to the life of Marcus Garvey, structured in two parts:  Part 1; chronicles the life of Marcus Garvey in a first person summary form.  Part 2; gives a broader view, based on what we now know, as a result of documents which have been made public by the US and...

Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is...

A star was born on March 25, 1920 in the quiet rural community of Plowden in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. Arthur Stanley Wint is perhaps best known as Jamaica’s first Olympic Gold Medalist and has been profiled as such in his native island’s rich athletic history. However, little is known...

The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes,...

The guava is a delicious edible tropical fruit.It grows on trees and ranges from a green to yellowish color,the fruit is pink on the inside and full of small seeds.The tree grows abundantly on the island of Trinidad,and the fruit ranges in size from a ping pong ball to a closed fist. The guava is...

Defining the Caymanian Identity analyzes the factions and schisms surging throughout the multicultural, multi-ethnic, and polarized Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. In the modern world where Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, or forgotten, often due to...

La storia di Porto Rico è piuttosto movimentata, quando gli europei arrivarono per la prima volta, la chiamarono Borikén. Fu proprio Cristoforo Colombo[1] in viaggio alle Antille a scoprire questo paradiso. La corte spagnola riteneva conquistatore Martin Alonso Pinzòn, pertanto diede accordi per...

LES hommes de couleur libres sont propriétaires dans les colonies, ils y payent les contributions  ; ces qualités leur donnent le droit d’être entendus, dans un moment où les troubles déchirent la colonie de Saint-Domingue, et la menacent d’une ruine prochaine....

Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth. The Haitians inherited the most beautiful earth. They are the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. And never will an American know their level of their poverty. Nor the amount of death that lives in their history. However they can be saved,...

When we forget, we run the risk if reinventing the wheel. Jamaica in the 21st Century: Revisiting the First Decade is a challenge and a reminder, lest we forget what ground has been covered in Jamaica’s social, political and religious life, particularly at the onset of the 21st century. Trawling...

Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on a broad comparative perspective. Hartlyn rejects...

Una característica de la historia de Venezuela es que entre nuestros ancestros está el elemento foráneo, ya sea de los inmigrantes de la posguerra o más remoto, como los conquistadores hispanos, todos venimos de extranjeros. Pero ¿por dónde llegaron?Usualmente estos personajes llegaban por barco,...

Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest...