Matt - Caribbean & West Indies 1

Blackbeard the Pirate is the definitive, meticulously researched account of Edward Teach, the man whose name has become synonymous with the Golden Age of Piracy. From his rise along the Caribbean an……続きを見る

Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quick……続きを見る

A detailed look at the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, the largest and most significant US military operation since the end of the Vietnam War. When a hardline Marxist faction overthrew Grenada's……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

In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequ……続きを見る

The thirty-year Golden Age of Piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many……続きを見る

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it ……続きを見る

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singersーMyrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítezーto explore how their voices and performance style transfo……続きを見る

« L’esclavage nous a appris à survivre, mais il nous a empêché d’apprendre à vivre en peuple ». C’est par ce terrible constat que Matthieu Gama pose la question fondamentale de l’ambition des popula……続きを見る

World War II and the Caribbean focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years. L……続きを見る

First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeol……続きを見る

Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peopl……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

An introduction to the rich history and culture of the Greater Caribbeanーthe wealthiest region in British America. In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jama……続きを見る