West category: 3403 books
Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism
Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Celebrants of an ever-emerging 'globalization' fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one 'commodity'...
Sweetness and Power
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1986
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Piracy is a phenomenon that has been plaguing the seas for centuries. Many have fought back against the lawless fiends of the ocean, and some have succeeded while others have failed. From Odysseus—the original pirate—to Blackbeard and the feared pirates of the Spanish Main, this text reveals the...
Black behind the Ears
Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly...
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejército español en la guerra separatista (1895–1898) by Josep Conangla. The English edition is based on the Spanish version...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
Omens of Adversity
Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the...
by Christine Chivallon, Antoinette Titus-Tidjani Alou (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States – the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still...
by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic...
by John Richard Hale
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Three hundred years ago Francis Bacon wrote, amongst other wise words: "To be Master of the Sea is an Abridgement of Monarchy.... The Bataille of Actium decided the Empire of the World. The Bataille of Lepanto arrested the Greatnesse of the Turke. There be many Examples where Sea-Fights have...
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to...
Governing Spirits
Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly and to proselytize. When government efforts to ensure freedom of worship began, reformers on both...
by Ernst Etienne
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
With a vibrant, intelligent and enterprising population, Haiti is a unique country with a rich history. Indeed, it was called the Pearl of the Antilles and it is the first independent republic of coloured people in modern times. However, Haiti has experienced significant decline since its early days....
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...