Caribbean & West Indies 13

Written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, this short story by multi-award-winning, million copy bestselling author Andrea Levy tells the tale of two Jamaican service men in that conflict. 続きを見る

El Caribe está lejos de ser un conjunto de territorios uniformes en el campo de la cultura. Luego del énfasis en la búsqueda de puntos de encuentro, es hora de otorgar herramientas que permitan tene……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

The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands sc……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads……続きを見る

Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by ……続きを見る

Georg Ebers' historischer Roman 'Homo sum' entführt den Leser in das alte Ägypten und erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte eines jungen Arztes, der vor den Herausforderungen des Lebens und der Liebe……続きを見る

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery wa……続きを見る

With a vibrant, intelligent and enterprising population, Haiti is a unique country with a rich history. Indeed, it was called the Pearl of the Antilles and it is the first independent republic of co……続きを見る

This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth centur……続きを見る

Este libro se terminó de escribir bajo el seudónimo de Simón Avilés en idioma español y costumbrismo de Latinoamérica, en el año 2016, al cumplirse 100 años de la primera ocupación militar de los Es……続きを見る

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression ……続きを見る

El propósito fundamental de este libro es reconstruir la historia de San Basilio de Palenque como un homenaje a los antiguos cimarrones que tuvieron la capacidad de escapar de la vida en esclavitud.……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

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

Not all pirates are men, nor are all damsels in distress. Here is the true saga of Irish born Anne Bonny, "Golden Age" pirate of the 18th Century Caribbean. Hollywood has tried numerous times to rep……続きを見る

Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by ……続きを見る

In "Jugend ohne Gott" von Ödön Von Horváth wird die Geschichte eines Lehrers erzählt, der mit den dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Natur konfrontiert wird. Der Autor präsentiert einen starken literar……続きを見る

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southw……続きを見る

Francisco de Xerez bietet in seinem Werk 'Geschichte der Entdeckung und Eroberung Perus' einen faszinierenden Einblick in das dramatische Kapitel der südamerikanischen Geschichte. In einem lebendige……続きを見る

THE KEEPERS OF THE GHOST BIRD chronicles the astonishing rediscovery of the Bermuda petrel, believed to have been extinct since 1625. It is the story of a tenacious bird and the naturalists who now ……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

Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new ex……続きを見る

Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the……続きを見る

2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural c……続きを見る

"Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, ……続きを見る

Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not……続きを見る

After more than sixty years of occupation by the U.S. Navy and intensive community struggles, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques was finally returned to civilian control in 2003. But, as this book d……続きを見る

As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical ed……続きを見る

An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family. There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations o……続きを見る