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Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s h……続きを見る

Before Fidel Castro seized power, Cuba was an ebullient and chaotic society in a permanent state of turmoil, combining a raucous tropical nature with the evils of arbitrary and corrupt government. Y……続きを見る

While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the A……続きを見る

As strange as this may sound , I hope you do not enjoy this book, I hope it disturbs you. I hope after reading you realize there is something wrong with Jamaica that needs to be fixed......I hope yo……続きを見る

This book provides an exemplary model of the cliometric method, and might very well be the best single study ever done on any slave system anywhere.続きを見る

In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered  a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks an……続きを見る

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this s……続きを見る

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS I. Starting for the Field II. Under the Red Cross III. On the Edge of War IV. War Correspondents and Despatch-Boats V……続きを見る

The Bermuda Triangle. The Devil's Triangle. Call it what you will but this area off the coast of the southwestern United States has stirred peoples' imaginations for hundreds of years. You won't fin……続きを見る

*Includes historic illustrations depicting Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives.*Includes a profile of Anne and Mary from the famous English pirate history "A General History o……続きを見る

To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has b……続きを見る

As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century ……続きを見る

This book highlights the diary of Thomas Thistlewood and contains a rich chronicle of platation life in Jamaica during the 18th century.続きを見る

Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island’s ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trinidad, is filled with soca and calypso mu……続きを見る

“There have been many versions of this legend of Rose Hall storyーsome good, some not so goodーbut this one is definitely the best…this is what happens when history and the best of fiction meet.” ‘R……続きを見る

*Includes historic illustrations depicting the three women and important people and places in their lives.*Includes a profile of Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the famous English pirate history "A Ge……続きを見る

Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave con……続きを見る

The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizi……続きを見る

The story is in two parts. Part1 is in the times of Jean Lafitte the 'Gentleman Pirate' and the tale is woven around some real characters and actual events, mingled with fictitious characters and ev……続きを見る

*Includes historic illustrations of Howell Davis and other important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a profile of Howell Davis from the famous English pirate history "A General Hist……続きを見る

The pirates of Somalia have given new relevance to old accounts of being captured by pirates. In 1821, Captain Barnabas Lincoln of Hingham Massachusetts was captured by pirates in the Caribbean, lef……続きを見る

The Lone Ranger is a fictional character, a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon……続きを見る

*Examines the lives, legends and legacies of 11 of history's most famous pirates. *Explains how the myths and legends of pirates like Blackbeard created the instantly recognizable pirate stereotypes……続きを見る

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousa……続きを見る

This publication is a pioneering work on the experiences of Grenadian women over two centuries of British colonialism, "Gairyism" and socialist revolution.続きを見る

*Includes historic illustrations depicting Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives.*Includes the profiles of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the famous Eng……続きを見る

THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN is a first-hand account of one man's capture, enslavement, and redeption.  Born in modern-day Nigeria in……続きを見る

A deeply researched and definitive account of the climactic battle at the end of the Haitian Revolution Among the many rebellions against European colonial empires, the Haitian Revolution against Fr……続きを見る

Laced with the controversial spirit that the politician is known for, Many Rivers to Cross chronicles his colourful journey as a Member of Parliament on the floor of Gordon House. It reflects on the……続きを見る

*Includes historic illustrations of Calico Jack and important people in his life.*Includes a profile of Calico Jack from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discuss……続きを見る