Caribbean & West Indies 11

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 unpar……続きを見る

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music ー and the industry that grew up around it, i……続きを見る

This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examinatio……続きを見る

The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years ー and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring ……続きを見る

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition ……続きを見る

First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard……続きを見る

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Hait……続きを見る

Envisioning La Escalera ー an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba ー in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventionsーand ended up achi……続きを見る

In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France’s Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strat……続きを見る

In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended……続きを見る

The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coa……続きを見る

In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic……続きを見る

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911–81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, an……続きを見る

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group ……続きを見る

In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Am……続きを見る

During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land mas……続きを見る

A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time - the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of ……続きを見る

This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other s……続きを見る

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 bord……続きを見る

The thirty-year Golden Age of Piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many……続きを見る

Journalism in a Small Place explores the changes and challenges in journalism and communication in the Caribbean in the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of media in the English speaking Car……続きを見る

More centrally focused on the Caribbean than any other survey of the region, Caribbean History examines a wide range of topics to give students a thorough understanding of the region's history. The ……続きを見る

How two French families madeーand lostーtheir fortunes in the brutal plantation culture of pre-revolutionary Haiti. In 1729, Marc-Antoine Lamerenx, a minor French nobleman, set sail for Saint-Doming……続きを見る

Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized ar……続きを見る

In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence bet……続きを見る

Everyone has a gift, something unique that makes them special. I spent my life searching for mine only to discover without luck, you're on a hiding to nothing. I joined a firm of Stockbrokers on Fri……続きを見る

Mother Africa's Baby Names book is a rare collection of authentic ancestral names brought to the Caribbean and the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. This book is the result of many hour……続きを見る

En un clima de enfrentamientos por la colonización del Nuevo Mundo y por la supremacía comercial, Sidvester O’Neill, un joven irlandés viaja por el Mar Caribe con destino a la isla de Puerto Dorado……続きを見る

Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with  thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a ……続きを見る