Caribbean & West Indies 34

The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 in the French colony of Saint Domingue, when a group of slaves rebelled in order to secure their freedom and the end of slavery. In the midst of the French Revol……続きを見る

In 1983, President Reagan's military intervention in Grenada, under the guise of rescuing U.S. citizens, led to a botched operation, exposing political and military missteps. In 1983, Grenada, a sma……続きを見る

Ce volume propose une réflexion collective sur les liens entre les Européens et les Antilles, avec la volonté de multiplier les points d’observation et de dépasser les cadres nationaux. Pour ce fair……続きを見る

In 1718 the British crown in the Bahamas pardoned 209 mariners accused of piracy. In A Pirate's Life No More, Steven C. Hahn explores the lives of these "retired” pirates. While there are a number o……続きを見る

"I am honoured as a Kalinago leader to be part of this wonderful work as it relates to the history of our people," says Irvince Auguiste, former Kalinago Chief. What happened to the indigenous peopl……続きを見る

My Hill and Gully Ride is a powerful, soul-stirring memoir of grit, faith, and the relentless pursuit of dreams. Fred Rose, a barefoot boy from the quiet hills of Blue Gate, Jamaica, charts an extra……続きを見る

Constituée au xviie siècle par l’absorption du tiers d’Hispaniola (ou Santo Domingo), grande Antille auparavant possession espagnole, la « Partie française de l’Isle Saint-Domingue » connut au siècl……続きを見る

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women’s labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built……続きを見る

The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of Fre……続きを見る

Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave ……続きを見る

Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than refor……続きを見る

In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffe……続きを見る

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History While many historians look to i……続きを見る

"Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topicーthe business of empireーwell. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an ……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with ……続きを見る

French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and t……続きを見る

Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Ricoーthe United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answ……続きを見る

In 2009, Ignacio Walkerーscholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectualsーpublished La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and s……続きを見る

Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social p……続きを見る

Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake o……続きを見る

In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmu……続きを見る

By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Coverin……続きを見る

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune……続きを見る

Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolita……続きを見る

STEWART R. KING is an associate professor of history at Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon. 続きを見る

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Car……続きを見る

Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the……続きを見る

Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a major university department and the aftermath of a decision, a decade la……続きを見る

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of differen……続きを見る

Borderless Empire explores the volatile history of Dutch Guiana, in particular the forgotten colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, to provide new perspectives on European empire building in the Atlant……続きを見る