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En Naufragios, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca relata las peripecias y desventuras de la expedición de Pánfilo de Narváez en busca de la prodigiosa Fuente de la juventud eterna. El grupo zarpó de San Lúc……続きを見る

La Florida del Inca es una obra del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Relata las aventuras de los expedicionarios españoles en sus viajes por la península de la Florida en Norteamérica. Iban encabezados pr……続きを見る

Esta obra indaga sobre la incorporación de las prácticas festivas de un carnaval colonial a orillas del Caribe a la conmemoración republicana de la independencia absoluta de Cartagena de Indias de l……続きを見る

Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peopl……続きを見る

“The modern Caribbean economy was invented, structured and managed by European states for one purpose: to achieve maximum wealth extraction to fuel and sustain their national financial, commercial a……続きを見る

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethn……続きを見る

The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised. It further provides the basis for ……続きを見る

In George Padmore’s Black Internationalism, Rodney Worrell traces the main features of Padmore’s social and political thought. Worrell explores Padmore’s use of the ideologies of Marxism and pan-Afr……続きを見る

El Gíbaro (1849), de Manuel A. Alonso, constituye la piedra angular de las letras puertorriqueñas. Situada por la crítica especializada a la altura de hitos fundacionales como el Cantar de mio Cid e……続きを見る

How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America? First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population ……続きを見る

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in n……続きを見る

Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through th……続きを見る

This compact Cayman Islands Trivia helps you to discover the Cayman Islands' history, places of interest and fun-facts from as early as 1503. The questions in this book make information about the Ca……続きを見る

When Philippe-Richard Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants……続きを見る

In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguing that Africans, unlike Europeans, had bodies parti……続きを見る

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both perso……続きを見る

Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, 2023 Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation One o……続きを見る

A Frail Liberty traces the paradoxical actions of the first French abolitionist society, the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of Blacks), at the juncture of two unprecedented achie……続きを見る

An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions that have developed as a……続きを見る

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965. Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narr……続きを見る

Cuba: La Habana y los Cubanos By: Julio E. Ulloa About the Book The discovery of the Americas is considered by most reputable historians, biologists, and anthropologists as a significant event that ……続きを見る

«Los piratas de América» supone una crónica apasionante sobre las aventuras de los piratas en el siglo XVII. Publicada en Ámsterdam en 1678, su autor Alexandre Exquemelin vivió en primera persona gr……続きを見る

On her thirteenth birthday, Mariama leans against her favourite baobab tree and daydreams, thrilled that the time has finally come for her Sande ceremony when she will officially pass into womanhood……続きを見る

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large se……続きを見る

Search for gold hidden under sea for centuries...This is Mel Fisher's Story. In the Eye of the Hurricane: Winds of Time and Sea Combine Alone on a hand-built search tower that he and his crew rigged……続きを見る

Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty ……続きを見る

Estebanico, un negro en la conquista de la Florida es una novela de aventura histórica en la que José Eusebio Chirino Camacho, con lenguaje sencillo y ameno, provoca a la reflexión, especialmente, a……続きを見る

Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the……続きを見る

In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first……続きを見る

2025 American Writing Awards Finalist: Non-Fiction-Multicultural To feel empathy, you need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. If the experiences of racism in a white supremacist system seem too……続きを見る