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La Compagnie des Indes et le cardinal de Richelieu s’intéressent très tôt au potentiel économique des îles nouvellement peuplées par les Français, de l’autre côté de l’océan. C’est pourquoi un relig……続きを見る

Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication. Many have been updated and translated from German and Italian into French for ……続きを見る

De la mano diestra de Armando Lacera Rúa nos trasladamos a la Santa Marta de mediados del siglo XX. Ya aquí, van apareciendo con gran vivacidad rincones, calles y lugares de grata recordación, ya de……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local b……続きを見る

"It was noon that day when we entered the Carib reservation and found ourselves at last in the El Dorado I had so fondly pictured in my imagination." "In Old Roseau" is the title of a thoroughly cha……続きを見る

The "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in……続きを見る

Rise and Fall of an Empire: A Progressive Caribbean emphasizes the significance of literature, media, history, slavery, culture and ideology which helped shape the Caribbean. This interdisciplinary ……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the islan……続きを見る

Ces pages sur Fort-de-France, sur une faible partie de son passé et de son présent, n’ont pas la prétention d’être une histoire complète de cette ville si intéressante, elles ont voulu seulement fix……続きを見る

"Wright said that with Columbus, Balboa, Cortez, Narvaez and their colleagues there were negro associates in the hazardous and perilous work of discovery and settlement." -Evening Star (Washington, ……続きを見る

About the Book Before Christopher Columbus's arrival, the New World was populated by people who likely originated in Asia. Each physiographic area's predominant culture was defined by the foods and ……続きを見る

This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic appr……続きを見る

This deeply researched, clearly written book is a history of black society and its relations with whites in the Bahamas from the close of the American Revolution to emancipation. Whittington B. John……続きを見る

Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For……続きを見る

Siempre nos han contado que España conquistó América, pero esa no es toda la verdad. Frente a la América conquistada y colonizada existió otra América habitada por pueblos que jamás se rindieron, na……続きを見る

Siempre nos han contado que España conquistó América, pero esa no es toda la verdad. Frente a la América conquistada y colonizada existió otra América habitada por pueblos que jamás se rindieron, na……続きを見る

From the expansionist fervour of the late nineteenth century through both world wars and the Cold War, a varied and ever-changing group of dreamers campaigned for Canada’s union with the British Car……続きを見る

In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claimsーto land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica,……続きを見る

The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Ch�vez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience……続きを見る

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization kn……続きを見る

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two socie……続きを見る

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 5……続きを見る

Firstborn, which celebrates the legacy of Luis Fred Kennedy, his family and business, is a narrative that takes on a character of its own, larger than life. At the age of twenty one, after the sudde……続きを見る

Tejkumari's Legacy is an historical novel. The story relates the lives of the descendants of the author's family from 1870 to 2010. The first two sections concern Tejkumari and her children, Prem an……続きを見る

Hamilton lived a troubled but remarkable youth in what was then the Danish West Indies. His mother Rachel, who died when he was in his early teens, was a brilliant and beautiful woman with a controv……続きを見る

C. L. R. James (1901–1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scho……続きを見る

Hartley Neita's *My Story & Other Stories: A Memoir* is a Jamaican treasure that has received rave endorsements from two poet laureates. This literary triumph overflows with Neita’s best-remembered ……続きを見る

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean. Drawing on h……続きを見る

Join Bracker Nalio on his adventure through the history of the Cayman Islands through the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. This informative narrative informs young readers of their Caymanian Heri……続きを見る

“This is the most satisfactory study of Rafael Trujillo [1891-1961] yet published. Mr. Crassweller has used printed materials and interviews to reconstruct the life of the Caribbean strongman and hi……続きを見る