Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, ……続きを見る
著者:Teresita A. Levy
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2014年12月01日
Most studies of Puerto Rico’s relations with the United States have focused on the sugar industry, recounting a tale of victimization and imperial abuse driven by the interests of U.S. sugar compani……続きを見る
In the mind of the mariner, there is a superstitious horror connected with the name of Pirate; and there are few subjects that interest and excite the curiosity of mankind generally, more than the d……続きを見る
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature,……続きを見る
著者:Matthew Mulcahy
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2014年11月03日
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
著者:Everol Wilson
出版社: RFTW Publishing
発売日: 2014年12月16日
A bite-size introduction to the life of Marcus Garvey, structured in two parts:
Part 1; chronicles the life of Marcus Garvey in a first person summary form.
Part 2; gives a broader view, based on wh……続きを見る
Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles o……続きを見る
Cayetano Coll y Toste nos lleva a conocer, cómo era Puerto Rico en la época colonial española y cómo era la vida de los Tainos y la de los esclavos. Sus temas principales fueron: el amor, la religió……続きを見る
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study ……続きを見る
Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of……続きを見る
著者:Neil Roberts
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2015年02月11日
What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as……続きを見る
著者:Frank Graziano
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年06月01日
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal fact……続きを見る
Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of……続きを見る
著者:Shona N. Jackson
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2012年10月25日
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants,……続きを見る
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are t……続きを見る
著者:Jean-Robert Cadet
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年03月15日
There are 27 million slaves living in the world todayーmore than at any time in history. Three hundred thousand of them are impoverished children in Haiti, who "stay with" families as unpaid and une……続きを見る
A comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology
Ancient Borinquen is a re-examination of the archaeology of Puerto Rico, drawing ……続きを見る
While Fidel Castro maintained his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself would be succ……続きを見る
The historic Hope lands was once the site of one of the island's earliest sugar estates. In 1848 the estate was dismantled and in 1909 the government acquired the property. By 1960 the landscape wa……続きを見る
*Includes historic illustrations depicting Morgan and important events in his life.*Includes excerpts from an account of Morgan's piracy written by his ship's surgeon.*Analyzes Morgan's legacy and c……続きを見る
*Examines the lives, legends and legacies of the Caribbean's most famous and successful pirates. *Explains how the myths and legends of pirates like Blackbeard created the instantly recognizable pir……続きを見る
著者:Colin Woodard
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2014年01月16日
For fans of The Lost Kingdom, Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . .
In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, inclu……続きを見る
著者:Michael Morris
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月12日
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnatio……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2015年03月12日
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with ……続きを見る
In 2004, for the second time in a decade, the international community found it necessary to intervene in Haiti to enforce and keep a peace. For the first time under a United Nations mandate, several……続きを見る
Ties That Bind signals a shift from the traditional focus by historians of the family on family forms and structure and instead assesses the relationships and interactions with black family networks……続きを見る
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El escritor disidente, fotógrafo, y pionero entre los blogueros cubanos Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo nos presenta una colección de textos surreales e irónicos sobre su ciudad natal. Este “dia……続きを見る
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Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His “diary of dy……続きを見る
This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and ……続きを見る