Caribbean & West Indies 12

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singersーMyrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítezーto explore how their voices and performance style transfo……続きを見る

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addit……続きを見る

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferron……続きを見る

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative,……続きを見る

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging th……続きを見る

In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and there……続きを見る

A writer remembers his childhood friend, M, who was disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War. 続きを見る

New novel from BTBA finalist about a man obsessed with understanding the working-class via a love affair with a woman. 続きを見る

Sebaldian in nature, Chejfec's My Two Worlds is, according to Enrique Vila-Matas, the future of the novel. 続きを見る

Reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550 In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cu……続きを見る

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone……続きを見る

In 1654, England’s Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain’s vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expeditio……続きを見る

Rum Curious takes the you on a tour of the world of rum by teaching you how to taste and appreciate all of its glorious variety. Once the drink of sailors and swashbuckling pirates, rum is the most ……続きを見る

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it ……続きを見る

By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prop……続きを見る

Mary Prince’s narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in……続きを見る

Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have b……続きを見る

A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic port……続きを見る

Among fights for the New World colonization and the commercial supremacy, a young Irishman named Sidvester O'Neill sets off for the Caribbean Sea heading to the isle of Puerto Dorado. He aims to fi……続きを見る

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 s……続きを見る

“Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin.” When the US Navy distributed this press release,……続きを見る

Este libro conjuga en breve síntesis el análisis de problemas fundamentales de la historia de Cuba con la información indispensable para comprender su peculiar evolución. Desde una perspectiva de ''……続きを見る

El Caribe está lejos de ser un conjunto de territorios uniformes en el campo de la cultura. Luego del énfasis en la búsqueda de puntos de encuentro, es hora de otorgar herramientas que permitan tene……続きを見る

The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands sc……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads……続きを見る

Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by ……続きを見る

Georg Ebers' historischer Roman 'Homo sum' entführt den Leser in das alte Ägypten und erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte eines jungen Arztes, der vor den Herausforderungen des Lebens und der Liebe……続きを見る

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery wa……続きを見る

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 co……続きを見る

This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth centur……続きを見る