Caribbean & West Indies 9

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commem……続きを見る

Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as “windows” into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majori……続きを見る

An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of ……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

A fascinating history of Puerto Rico by R.A. Van Middeldyk. 続きを見る

The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti’s resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and re……続きを見る

In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarante……続きを見る

Bless Britain – A Caribbean Coup d'Etat, a true saga of centuries of neglect suffered by a unique set of Caribbean islanders, culminating in the eventual invasion of Anguilla - "the mouse that roare……続きを見る

American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond provides an up-to-date summary of past and present views of American slavery in international perspective and suggests new directions for current and f……続きを見る

The book consists of papers that were presented at All Souls College, Oxford on the occasion of the centenary of Eric William's birth. They draw upon recent research and either supported, modified ……続きを見る

Defining the Caymanian Identity analyzes the factions and schisms surging throughout the multicultural, multi-ethnic, and polarized Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. ……続きを見る

A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492 This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal people……続きを見る

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Il est une certaine école plus nombreuse qu’on ne le pense, pour qui les temps préhistoriques sont une invention moderne. Selon ses adeptes,  jamais les hommes n’ont ét&eac……続きを見る

Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a……続きを見る

Composición social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 1970 in Spanish, and translated into English here for the first time, discusses the changing structur……続きを見る

Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the thi……続きを見る

Pirates are often glorified as nautical Robin Hoods, heroes of the seas - and some were great navigators, map makers, and discoverers. But they were also thieves and murderers. They were undoubtedly……続きを見る

This study provides the most comprehensive account to date of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial period to the onset of the Second World War.続きを見る

The core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications.続きを見る

This volume provides an important entrée into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage, inclusive of the several topics that represent the rich plurality of the Caribbean experience.続きを見る

One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often……続きを見る

Throughout Haitian historyーfrom 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haitiーarguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” a……続きを見る

Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architect……続きを見る

Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architect……続きを見る

“I have taught ... for two generations and was a reading coordinator. ... Being an avid reader, I can honestly say that this is the best literary work I have read.” A. Bryan, Amazon.com. Five star r……続きを見る

In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twent……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Clustered together in azure-blue waters are a collection of little islands whose culture, history and people have touched every corner of th……続きを見る

In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival……続きを見る

Descubre la esencia del alma puertorriqueña a través de la obra maestra de Abelardo Díaz Alfaro. Terrazo no es solo un libro de cuentos; es el espejo de un pueblo. Publicado originalmente en 1947, e……続きを見る