Caribbean & West Indies 21

Welcome to the Bahama Islands history and cuisine! Enjoy a romantic vacation in the Bahamas! But there's another world out there beyond the major tourist destinations just waiting to be discovered: ……続きを見る

Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a cen……続きを見る

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored……続きを見る

Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Pro……続きを見る

Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweepin……続きを見る

How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas.……続きを見る

Outspoken, accomplished, and frequently controversial, Bermudian physician and political leader Ewart Brown, MD, has been a longtime champion of racial equality, human rights, and economic and socia……続きを見る

The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringingーand its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexa……続きを見る

Shay was fresh out of high school and decided to move into the city to attend university. She met an irresistible young man and was encouraged to pursue the relationship. Can Shay leave the broken p……続きを見る

The Uncanny Adventures of Tom Fallon continues in Black Iron 2: The Thief, The Rogue, and the Mad Inventor. Eleven-year-old Tom Fallon is alone. On an island. With no escape. His only possession is ……続きを見る

Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O’Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak’s Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Chicago Folklore Prize For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world’s most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colon……続きを見る

La última de las guerras civiles colombianas, con la que se cerró el siglo XIX e inició el XX, la más larga y sangrienta de todas, arrastró en su vorágine de destrucción y muerte a los liberales y a……続きを見る

In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual a……続きを見る

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from tradi……続きを見る

Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynami……続きを見る

A Missionary Nation focuses on Spain’s crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the so-called War of Africa. Fought in Morocco between 1859 and 1860, the campaign involved more than forty-fiv……続きを見る

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation and contributed significantl……続きを見る

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and people Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity……続きを見る

Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the Atlantic connections not only outlasted colonialism, th……続きを見る

Crescere in un mondo dal «passato  ignoto» può segnare una vita intera. Non stupisce dunque che Naipaul, da ragazzo, a Trinidad, sentisse «l’assenza della storia»: nessuno, intorno a lui, sapeva che……続きを見る

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality. Virgin Capital examines the cultural ……続きを見る

In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerge……続きを見る

This collection of writings from Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot includes his most famous, lesser known, and hard to find writings that demonstrate his enduring importance to Caribbean……続きを見る

From 10 January 1979 to 4 April 1979 Michel Foucault delivered his annual public lecture at the College De France, Paris titled: 'The Birth of Biopolitics' which did not deal with Biopolitics and it……続きを見る

Creole Composition is a collection featuring essays by scholars and teachers-researchers working with students in/from the Anglophone Caribbean. Arising from a need to define what writing instructio……続きを見る

“Yes, the morning breeze was a false friend. For one little girl named Goddie, the August breeze of 1945 would never feel the same again.” In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we read the story of……続きを見る

Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African D……続きを見る

Los quince capítulos de Desde otros Caribes: fronteras, poéticas e identidades ponen en escena a "otros Caribes" en un performance dialógico y transdisciplinario que permite su discusión como actore……続きを見る

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English……続きを見る