The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto……続きを見る
著者:Kezia Page
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2010年09月13日
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultura……続きを見る
著者:Mark Barnes
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年09月13日
An often overshadowed event in American military history, the Spanish-American War began as a humanitarian effort on the part of the United States to provide military assistance for the liberation o……続きを見る
Por varias generaciones hemos sido educados en falsedades históricas, ya que siempre fue verdad aquella frase de Orwell que decía: “quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro”.
Dichas falsificacio……続きを見る
Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate.
This collection of classic pi……続きを見る
"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times
Windsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his fa……続きを見る
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and e……続きを見る
This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities.
Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1……続きを見る
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this……続きを見る
A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean
The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial ……続きを見る
Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across……続きを見る
著者:Marcus Garvey
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2014年09月29日
Volume XII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers a period of twelve months, from the opening of the UNIA's historic first international convention in New Yor……続きを見る
The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is producedーnow with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.
Now part of the HBO docuseries ……続きを見る
著者:Katherine Dunham
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月16日
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, ……続きを見る
著者:V. S. Naipaul
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年10月20日
**From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writingーa deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and col……続きを見る
著者:Peter Earle
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年02月06日
Captain Henry Morgan's capture of the city of Panamá in 1671 is seen as one of the most audacious military operations in history. In The Sack of Panamá , Peter Earle masterfully retells this classic……続きを見る
著者:Mary Prince
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2000年05月25日
The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her event……続きを見る
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state o……続きを見る
Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or 'smallholder……続きを見る
Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that……続きを見る
The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history.
With a ……続きを見る
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, ……続きを見る
著者:David Scott
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2013年12月18日
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983), and the reperc……続きを見る
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the……続きを見る
著者:Mimi Sheller
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2012年05月07日
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the int……続きを見る
When Americans seek an escape from the worries and dilemmas of everyday life, the crystal blue waters and white sands of the Caribbean islands seem like the answer to a prayer. Yet this image of a t……続きを見る
Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemp……続きを見る