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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

The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over ……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

The Caribbean Perspectives series began as a response to the need for scholarly investigations into social, scientific, and economic conditions affecting the least understood, or written about, part……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

Abebi tells the story of the incredible journey of a female warrior and apprentice healer of the Come-if-yuh-Dare Maroons, a mythical seventeenth century band of runaway slaves in the Jamaica Blue M……続きを見る

Haïti, un coin d’île naviguant entre instabilité politique, fuite intellectuelle et exode de sa population, mais produisant une peinture inspirée, une littérature abondante et surtout une musique ma……続きを見る

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LES hommes de couleur libres sont propriétaires dans les colonies, ils y payent les contributions ; ces qualités leur donnent le droit d’être entendus, dans un moment où les troubles déchirent la co……続きを見る

Un Puente hacia el Alma Borincana Bienvenidos a una de las crónicas más vibrantes y esenciales de la literatura puertorriqueña del siglo XIX. "Costumbres y Tradiciones" no es solo un libro; es un es……続きを見る

THÉMISTOCLE annonce aux Athéniens que, pour accroître la puissance de la république et la délivrer d’un ennemi redoutable, il a un moyen infaillible, mais qui ne peut être révélé au public. Aristide……続きを見る

Redescubra la esencia del alma puertorriqueña a través de la pluma magistral de Manuel Fernández Juncos. En Cuentos y Narraciones, Fernández Juncos ーfigura cumbre de las letras y la cultura en Puer……続きを見る

En 1911 el escritor e historiador panameño Juan Bautista Sosa publicó un documentado texto, que articula los periodos de la vida cultural, social, económica, política y militar del Istmo de Panamá, ……続きを見る

Este libro ofrece uno de los primeros estudios pormenorizados sobre las relaciones humano-ambientales de una pequeña comunidad austronesia de Melanesia insular: las islas Torres, situadas en una gra……続きを見る

This book charts the involvement of the British navy in the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. It recounts the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins an……続きを見る

TI IT HAPPENED! In 1750, fifty-five chests of silver pieces of eight were stolen from a Spanish galleon at Ocracoke, North Carolina, and carried to the West Indies where most of it was buried on Nor……続きを見る

In "Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers," John S. C. Abbott provides a captivating exploration of the enigmatic figures who roamed the high seas during the Golden Age of Piracy. Abbott……続きを見る

In "The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893)", John Bloundelle-Burton presents a meticulously researched narrative that explores the complex socio-political fabric of Hispaniola during a pivotal two-century……続きを見る