Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
by Katherine Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people...
The Borders of Dominicanidad
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic...
by Yvonne Conde
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a...
by George Kennan
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. Starting for the Field
II. Under the Red Cross
III. On the Edge of War
IV. War Correspondents and Despatch-Boats
V. Off for Santiago
VI. The Cuban Coast
VII. The Fight at Guantanamo
VIII. The Landing and Advance...
by Colin C. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Time was running out! The slavers had burned the tiny African village to the ground, slaughtered the frail and elderly, and had captured Nanny's five brothers along with all the young men, women and children of the village. The ruthless thugs marched their hapless captives down to the seaport...
Conquistador Voices (vol I)
The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?
Columbus discovered America, Cortés conquered the Aztecs, Pizarro the Incas. Soto had something to do with the Mississippi. And Cabeza de Vaca? Well, your teacher never mentioned him.
For most Americans, this is the extent of our knowledge about...
by Richard Price, Sally Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that...
THE PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEAS – Know Your Infamous Buccaneers, Their Exploits & Their Real Histories (9 Books in One Edition)
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, The Book of Buried Treasure, Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean, The Pirate Gow, The King of Pirates…
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This unique collection of "THE PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEAS – Know Your Infamous Buccaneers, Their Exploits & Their Real Histories (9 Books in One Edition)" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious...
Cuba en la encrucijada
12 perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el cambio en la habana y en todo el país
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Un libro de crónicas cubanas de la mano de doce de los más prestigiosos periodistas y escritores de nuestro tiempo que abarca política y arte, música y béisbol, presente y pasado, y nos ofrecen una excepcional instantánea de la particular encrucijada en la que se encuentra la sociedad cubana.
“De...
Haiti
A Shattered Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Renowned author Elizabeth Abbott, who lived and wrote in Haiti, begins with the notorious Duvaliers—father and son—and explores their legacy to the present day. In 1803, the enslaved people of Haiti vanquished their French masters after a bloody war which left tens of thousands dead. Since then,...
Notes From the Last Testament
The Struggle for Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic...
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive...
by Mavis C. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This study explores the early Spanish attempts to colonize present day Belize and identifies many of the problems Spain encountered.
by Peter Trew
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
George Brydges Rodney (1718-1792), later Admiral Lord Rodney, had anything but a conventional career. His promising early career, which left him marked for advancement, had run into the sand during the long years of peace after the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Indeed when Britain and France found...