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
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
著者:Louis Nelson
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2016年03月15日
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
著者:Louis Nelson
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2016年03月01日
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
著者:Michael A. Joseph
出版社: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co.
発売日: 2016年05月31日
“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
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Karibik, Note: 1,5, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Sprachvergleich und Sprachgebrauch), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract……続きを見る
著者:Njoroge M. Njoroge
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年06月16日
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
著者:Hope Munro
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年06月20日
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
Terrazo es una gran colección de historias cortas puertorriqueñas publicadas por primera vez en el 1947 que ilustran la vida en el campo durante el alza de las industrias azucareras americanas. Much……続きを見る
Leyendas escritas por el gran autor José Güell y Renté que relatan la conquista de Kiskeya, Ayiti, Veragoa y las otras regiones del Caribe desde la perspectiva de los caciques Guacanajarí, Anacaona ……続きを見る
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Karibik, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jamaika, eine Insel der Sonne, des……続きを見る
In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted……続きを見る
著者:David Wheat
出版社: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese cro……続きを見る
著者:Laurent Dubois
出版社: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Car……続きを見る
著者:Susan Dwyer Amussen
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange be……続きを見る
著者:Colin A. Palmer
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica……続きを見る
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth……続きを見る
In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition me……続きを見る
著者:Matthew J. Smith
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
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
著者:Demetrius L. Eudell
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Ana……続きを見る
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spa……続きを見る
著者:Ada Ferrer
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empi……続きを見る
著者:Julia Gaffield
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti'……続きを見る
著者:Jorge Duany
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin……続きを見る
著者:Lara Putnam
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields ……続きを見る
著者:Louis A. Pérez
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a t……続きを見る