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Des rives du Delta de l’Orénoque aux falaises escarpées de la Porte d’Enfer, l’auteur retrace l’itinéraire de Patamon, dernier survivant des Arawaks, peuple premier des Antilles. Né d’une légende, i……続きを見る

Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a repr……続きを見る

It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian coloni……続きを見る

In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served……続きを見る

At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave F……続きを見る

The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreemen……続きを見る

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion ……続きを見る

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the……続きを見る

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Sp……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

In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge soci……続きを見る

Los hijos de Sánchez es un libro escrito por el antropólogo estadounidense Oscar Lewis, publicado en 1961. El libro es el resultado de una investigación etnográfica llevada a cabo por Lewis en la dé……続きを見る

Tepoztlán es un libro escrito por Oscar Lewis, sociólogo y antropólogo estadounidense, publicado en 1960. En esta obra, Lewis narra sus experiencias en Tepoztlán, un pequeño pueblo ubicado en México……続きを見る

I PLEDGE MY ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AND TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE PEOPLE UNITED IN LOVE AND SERVICE. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of The Bahamas owes its inc……続きを見る

Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining……続きを見る

In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Nor……続きを見る

En 1625, des marins français font la conquête de l’île de Saint-Christophe. Vingtーcinq ans plus tard, ces colons sont installés dans neuf îles des Petites Antilles. Une fois le temps des conquêtes ……続きを見る

Cubah mourns a loved one when an ancestor introduces her to the story of The Windward Maroons of Portland in eastern Jamaica. She gets to hear more about Quao, at the time was the democratic leader.……続きを見る

Quels parcours de vie mènent à se retrouver, au grand âge, entouré d‘amour et de sollicitude, ou isolé et esseulé ? Comment faire face, en vieillissant, à cette question angoissante : « Qui prendra ……続きを見る

Espace de belligérance, la Caraïbe rassemble des territoires impériaux discontinus et précaires. Dans les villes coloniales, la milice constituait souvent la principale force armée pour la défense d……続きを見る

This work originally published in 2009 has been thoroughly revised and republished in 2025 to complete the Simbhoonath Capildeo Dossier. Part 2 focuses on the power relations between the politicians……続きを見る

“Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors tha……続きを見る

Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize From the rise of dictator Rafael Trujillo in the early 1930s through the twelve-year rule of his successor ……続きを見る

Descended from African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of life combines elements of African, Island Carib, and colonial European ……続きを見る

This is the first full-length ethnography of a unique community within the African diaspora. Rosalyn Howard traces the history of the isolated "Red Bays" community of the Bahamas, from their escape ……続きを見る

"A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in H……続きを見る

Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Feat……続きを見る

First-person accounts that show the expanding demographics of African-descended religions In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-pe……続きを見る

The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporas This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In ……続きを見る

In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much mo……続きを見る