Caribbean & West Indies 25

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

In zijn niet aflatende zoektocht naar de essentie van de Haïtiaanse identiteit, biedt Edgar La Selve in 'Haïti' een diepgaande analyse van de complexe sociale, politieke en culturele realiteiten van……続きを見る

In 'Geschiedenis van Suriname' biedt J. Wolbers een diepgaande analyse van de complexe historische en culturele ontwikkelingen in Suriname. Het boek verkent de pre-coloniale tijd, de koloniale overh……続きを見る

En un peu plus de deux siècles, Haïti, l’ancienne «perle des Antilles »est devenue un Pandémonium. Cet essai tente d’expliquer cette descente aux enfers de la première nation nègre du monde moderne ……続きを見る

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians,……続きを見る

Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of ……続きを見る

Wie würde es Ihnen gefallen einen echten Diamanten auf dem Gehweg zu finden? Wären Sie absolut begeistert oder würden Sie ihn nicht mal aufheben. Es gibt sicherlich einige Menschen, die das Zweite t……続きを見る

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theo……続きを見る

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominat……続きを見る

Después de muchas luchas e intentos infructuosos, Simón Bolívar se asocia con Francisco de Paula Santander y José Antonio Paéz, y conforma el ejército que en cinco años dará la independencia a cinco……続きを見る

The biography of the best seaman of England. The Dragon, as named by his Spanish enemies, scourage the Caribbean sea, and besieged walled cities that kept treasures of gold, silver, emeralds, and pe……続きを見る

The Coal Women of St. Thomas uses more than 200 images to help tell the story of the women (and men) that worked on the St. Thomas coal wharfs between 1841 and 1940. 続きを見る

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan. Originally published in Spanish in 1985 as part of a book series commission……続きを見る

**A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of sla……続きを見る