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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

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