New York University Press, 1960. — 264 p. The term British West Indies refers to the former English and British colonies and the present-day overseas territories of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. In the history of the British West Indies there have been several attempts at political unions. These attempts have occurred over a period of more than 300 years, from 1627 to...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. — 231 p. — (International Political Economy Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-40716-3, 978-0-230-50816-3, 978-0-333-71708-0. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain. Theorizing the State and Gender Systems in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean. Women and Gender Relations in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean. Constructing Gender Containing Women: Promoting Gender...
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. — 216 p. — (Routledge Harwood Anthropology). — ISBN: 0415274397, 9780415274395. Jews of the Dutch Caribbean addresses identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. It asks readers to take a broad perspective on the contexts that play a role in ethnicity including, for example,...
Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, CNRS Éditions, 2000. — 310 p. — ISBN: 9782735108602. De création récente, les sociétés de la Caraïbe sont issues de la colonisation des Amériques qui s'accompagna de l'extermination de populations amérindiennes, de la transplantation et de l'esclavage de populations d'origine africaine, puis de différentes vagues de...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 207 p. Throughout the world, policy makers argue that they develop and implement policies to benefit all members of their society. Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean argues that the policies introduced by several governments in the Caribbean lead to the exclusion of groups within these societies. Using both research and interviews, the authors explore...
Array, Martinique: Ibis rouge éditions, 2015. — 601 p. — (Collection Espace outre-mer). — ISBN: 9782844504722, 2844504728. À travers diverses sources, notamment sources orales recueillies auprès de militants communistes, sources imprimées puisées dans le journal communiste Justice et aux archives nationales et au PCF, cet ouvrage tend à éclairer sur la ferveur militante...
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1990. — xx, 195 p. — (World Bibliographical Series v. 108). Paul G. Boultbee received his Master of Library Science degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1975. He was on the staff of the Library of the College of the Bahamas in Nassau (1975-81), serving from 1979 as Head Librarian. He is currently Reference Librarian at Red Deer College, Alberta.
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1996. — Pp. xviii, 129. — (World Bibliographical Series v. 187). — ISBN: 1851092404, 9781851092406, 9780585026688. "This comprehensive bibliographical guide is a must for Caribbeanists and others undertaking research on the Cayman Islands." - Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. Paul G. Boultbee received his Master of Library Science degree from the...
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1998. — 186 p. — (World Bibliographical Series). — ISBN: 185109170X, 9781851091706. Paul G. Boultbee received his Master of Library Science degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1975. He was on the staff of the Library of the College of the Bahamas in Nassau (1975-81), serving from 1979 as Head Librarian. He is currently Reference Librarian at Red...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 728 p. This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century ("The Age of Free Trade"); the second considers the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 360 p. — (The Early Modern Americas). — ISBN: 0812248295, 9780812248296. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters,...
University of Georgia Press, 2015. — 240 p. — (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900). — ISBN: 0820344559, 9780820344553. In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 274 p. — (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-34620-2, 978-1-137-03081-8. The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 219 p. — (Studies in Imperialism) This book produces a major rethinking of the history of development after 1940 through an exploration of Britain’s ambitions for industrialisation in its Caribbean colonies. Industrial development is a neglected topic in histories of the British Colonial Empire, and we know very little of plans for Britain’s...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 390 p. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. The arrival of tricolour cockades - badges showing support for the French Revolution - and news from Paris in 1789 undermined the royal governors' authority, unleashed bitter conflict...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 390 p. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. The arrival of tricolour cockades - badges showing support for the French Revolution - and news from Paris in 1789 undermined the royal governors' authority, unleashed bitter conflict...
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0742550478, 9780742550476. In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews...
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1995. — 140 p. — (World Bibliographical Series). — ISBN: 1851091513, 9781851091515, 9780585027616. Martinique is one of the Lesser Antilles, the island arc that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is also an Overseas Department of France, despite its distant location from Paris. An independence movement has never really galvanized...
University of Virginia Press, 2016. — 256 p. As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism was spreading throughout the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. — 320 p. Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planter-slave relations as...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 270 p. In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of "populism," and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap to a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often at a policy standstill pondering which way...
University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 472 p. — ISBN: 0807828742, 9780807828748. 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 Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early...
Duke University Press Books, 2005. — 408 p. Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a path-breaking contribution to the study of...
Indiana University Press, 1997. — 278 p. This volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0802126146; ISBN13: 978-0802126146. Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 168 p. This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of different communities interacting and evolving together, and argues passionately...
Radcliffe Press, 2009. — 417 p. Within three decades of the end of the Second World War, the once mighty British Empire had been dismantled leaving only a few residual spots of red on the world map. This was the age of de-colonization and Independence. Trespassers Forgiven offers a personal glimpse into the history of British Honduras (Belize) at this crucial period in British...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 250 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). Kourou and the Struggle for a French America explores the French monarchy's attempt to establish a colony in South America that emulated the successful British colonies to the north. Initiated in the aftermath of the Seven Years War that had resulted in the loss of France's Canadian possessions, the new...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 314 p. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the...
Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 1971. — 712 p. This is a most disappointing book. It is clearly a labour of love, but it is also an instance of 'love's labour lost'. The author has taken a great deal of trouble and read widely; but he has got his priorities wrong and he has misread or misunderstood many of the works which he has used. He states in his preface that the importance of the...
New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1965. — 392 p. — (Caribbean Series 8). — ISBN: 0313221561, 9780313221569.. Frontispiece. Map of the Leeward Islands. Introduction: A Background of Impending Crisis. The Political System. The Sugar Industry and the Slave System. The Slave Laws. The Ranks of Society. The Christian Missions. Conclusion: Change and Stability in a West...
University of California Press, 2008. — 272 p. — (The Anthropology of Christianity). — ISBN: 0520254880, 9780520254886. In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism,...
London: Practical Action Publishing / Latin America Bureau, 1984. — 108 p. — ISBN: 0906156203, 9780906156209. The socialist rhetoric of President Forbes Burnham's regime contrasted strikingly with the ugly details of his personalist and authoritarian rule. Guyana: Fraudulent Revolution analyses these contradictions in the context of the country's history from its days as a...
University of the West Indies Press, 2013. — 188 p. More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold...
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017. — 274 p. — (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900). — ISBN: 0820351717, 9780820351711. Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 252 p. — (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs). — ISBN: 0521030145, 9780521030144, 0521363780, 9780521363785, 9780511571008. This comparative study of two republics examines the conditions that determine regime survival in less developed countries. The author looks at the functioning of political ?lites and the strategies...
Routledge, 2021. — 210 p. This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences...
Barbados, 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and freeholders, of brigands, bawds and buccaneers. CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first American revolution, as English colonists pen a Declaration of Defiance ("liberty" or "death") against Parliament and fight a full-scale war for freedom against an English fleet - with cannon, militia, many lives...
University Press of Florida, 1994. — 425 p. — ISBN: 0813012929, 9780813012926. This distinguished catalogue of the Lesser Antilles provides extensive, precise descriptions of approximately one thousand printed books and one thousand manuscripts that Walter Beinecke, Jr., collected over several decades and donated to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he is a trustee....
First published 1938.— HarperCollins, 1990. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0060916494, 9780060916497, 9780061578823. As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of...
Lexington Books, 2014. — 185 p. This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, this is the first work in a century to consider the three countries as a group, and thus the first to present the history of all three as a comparative and overarching study. Special emphasis has been...
Routledge, 2018. — 305 p. Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime - especially violent crime - in much of the region, the plague of the illicit drug trade, transnational organized crime, gangs, the current global proliferation of crimes of terrorism and related violent extremism and...
Pluto Press, 2021. — 192 p. Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story of the Windrush Generation is more widely known than ever. But is it the whole story? Through a series of biographical essays, poems and...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 241 p. How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 292 p. — (Studies in Environment and History). — ISBN: 0521524709, 9780511572876, 9780521268745, 9780521524704. This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors...
Leiden: Brill, 2014. — X, 180 p. — (Caribbean Series vol. 30). — ISBN: 978-90-04-25358-2
From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American continent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders participated with various...
Amsterdam University Press; Archaeological Studies Leiden University Press, 2007. — 383 p. — ISBN: 9087280084, 9789087280086, 9789048504954. Prehistoric Amerindian society in the Caribbean has appealed to us ever since Columbus set foot on the Bahamas. In this archaeological study, Sebastiaan Knippenberg touches upon a single but important aspect of this society: inter-village...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1990. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-20892-0, 978-1-349-20890-6. In this book on urban poverty in the Caribbean, Michel S. Laguerre presents a detailed analysis of the phenomenon in urban Martinique. He argues that the national structure of inequality finds its myriad expressions in the urban environment. Not only does the city provide the ideological back-up...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. — 334 p. — (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-68294-2, 978-1-137-43272-8, 978-0-333-91908-8, 978-0-333-91909-5. Experiments in Modernity: the Making of the Atlantic World Economy. From Seas to Ocean: Interpreting the Shift from the North Sea-Baltic World to the Atlantic, 1650–1800. On the Rocks: a New Approach...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 310 p. This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean. The primary argument is that the Caribbean’s geopolitics have shifted from a period of relative great power disinterest in the aftermath of the Cold War to a gradual movement into a new Cold War in which a global rivalry between the U.S. and China is acted out regionally. The...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. — XXIII, 242 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-56099-5, 978-1-137-56100-8. Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the future in the...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2003. — 268p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-38772-4, 978-1-4039-7380-1, 38-2002-972-9. What would the island of Hispaniola look like if viewed as a loosely connected system? That is the question Haitian-Dominican Counterpointseeks to answer as it surveys the insular space shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout their parallel histories. For beneath the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 322 p. Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN: 1683400380, 9781683400387. This is an edited volume that seeks to elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Transnational Hispaniola: An Introduction. April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram. The Historical Limits of the State in Hispaniola . Shifting Territories: The...
Rutgers University Press, 1996. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0813523087, 978-0813523088. This engaging ethnography is set in the remote district of Toledo in Belize, Central America, where three women weave personal stories about the events in their lives. Each describes her experiences of motherhood, marriage, family lives, emigration, separation, work, or domestic violence that led her...
Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2002. — xvi, 388 p. — ISBN: 9766400229, 9789766400224, 9781435694798. This collection examines the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The articles include analyses of British West Indian trade within the context of the Atlantic economy, the social consequences...
First Edition, First Printing. — Washington: Federal Research Division, 1989. — 771 p. The Commonwealth Caribbeanis the term applied to the English-speaking islands in the Carribbean and the mainland nations of Belize (formerly British Honduras) and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) that once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire. This volume examines only the...
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. — 256 p. — (Caribbean Studies Series). — ISBN: 9781604732818, 1604732814. Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the...
London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1993. — 224 p. — (Warwick University Caribbean Studies). — ISBN: 0333577590, 9780333577592. This volume re-examines the meaning of revolution as a useful concept in politics. It traces the history of the concept from its ancient beginnings, but especially in connection with the idea of progress since the French Revolution. More recent statements are...
University Press of Mississippi, 2014. — 257 p. These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. In the first...
Indiana University Press, 2001. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0253339138, 9780253339133, 9780253108760. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848 , Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 216 p. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 352 p. In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social, economic, and informal political connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean. Focusing on a chain of volcanic islands, each...
University of Virginia Press, 2022. — 280 p. The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams...
University of Georgia Press, 2009. — 240 p. — (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900). — ISBN: 0820333395, 9780820333397. This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, Nicholas M. Beasley finds that the...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 336 p. The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction between freedom and bondage relied upon the violent policing of the spoken word. Offering...
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. — 224 p. — (Caribbean Studies Series). — ISBN: 1604732423, 9781604732429. Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2003. — 292 p. Acknowledgements The Comparative Context: Fragmentation of the British West Indies and the Remnants of Empire The Comparative Context: The French départements d’outre-mer, Grandeur and Civilisation at a Price The Comparative Context: Puerto Rico and the u.s. Virgin Islands, Deadlocks in American Geopolitics Dutch Rule in the Caribbean...
Editorial José Martí, 2014. — 304 p. Título original en inglés: Paradise Overseas. The Dutch Caribbean: Colonialism and its Transatlantic Legacies. "Paradise Overseas" presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits a refreshing...
University Press of Florida, 1996. — 395 p. — ISBN: 081301428X, 9780813014289. This collection offers the only single-volume treatment in English of the Lesser Antilles from the time of Columbus to the abolition of slavery. The essays show how the Lesser Antilles emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as among the most densely populated and advanced economic zones in the world...
Monthly Review Press, 2015. — 170 p. Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against slave society, the book reveals for the first time fascinating details about how Maroons...
Routledge, 2014. — 1888 p. This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 3: Living in the Caribbean Once...
Routledge, 2014. — 475 p. This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 364 p. This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — 256 p. — (The New Cold War History). — ISBN: 080782979X, 9780807829790. In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to...
Routledge, 1998. — 239 р. The Caribbean Basin: An International History provides a study of the entire Caribbean region, including Central America and the Caribbean coast of northern South America. It also offers analysis of: * the role of international intervention * the complex interaction among major world powers in the area * conflicts over colonial possessions and trade...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9780520219847, 9780585389387, 0520219848, 0520219856, 9780520219854. Rockets roar into space—bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites—from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0813572002, 9780813572000. Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. — XIII, 273 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History). — ISBN: 978-1-137-59210-1, 978-1-137-59211-8. In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the...
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0865435162, 9780865435162. This book makes a fascinating comparison of the health policies in Barbados and Grenada during the 1979-1983 period as they relate to working -class women. After analyzing the state in capitalist societies through a review of the literature, Dr. Rodney shifts her focus to the state in the...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. — 313 p. — (Macmillan International Political Economy Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-11879-3, 978-1-349-11877-9, 219-241-259-2, 1979-1988-6-1. Peace, Democracy and Security in the Caribbean. Restoring Hegemony: the Complementarity Among the Security, Economic and Political Components of US Policy in the Caribbean Basin During the 1980s. Cuba and the...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. — 260 p. — (International Political Economy Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-24495-9, 978-1-349-24493-5. US Military Policy towards the Caribbean in the 1990s. French Presence and Strategic Interests in the Caribbean. Britain and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Canada and Caribbean Security. National Security, Narcotics Control and the Haitian Military....
University of South Carolina Press, 2018. — 272 p. Brimming with new perspectives and cutting-edge research, the essays collected in The Torrid Zone explore colonization and cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early 1800s―a period known as the "long" seventeenth century―a time when these encounters varied widely and the diverse actors were not yet...
Boulder / Oxford: Westview Press, 1995. — 208 p. — (Conflict and Social Change Series). — ISBN: 0813312124, 9780813312125. This book examines the debate about the effects of industrialization and paid employment on gender inequality, based on the author’s studies of women industrial workers in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. Safa focuses on three areas of these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 312 p. From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in European demand for sugar, coffee, and indigo. Like other colonial subjects,...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 273 p. — (Studies in Imperialism). — ISBN: 0719064740, 9780719064746, 9781423706489. Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things--new music, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for...
CRC Press, 2021. — 359 p. First published in 1990. This volume of essays on the Dutch Caribbean considers areas that are of increasing importance on the international scene and on which little has been written. The Dutch Caribbean shares many of the features of the French-, Spanish- and English-speaking Caribbean. Like these other linguistic zones, the Dutch Caribbean emerged...
University Press of Florida, 2001. — 224 p. Mimi Sheller's ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical...
Routledge, 2013. — 322 p. Charles Shepard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, this book being dedicated to the British survivors. But having had access to several contemporary diaries and having interviewed survivors, he was able to correct and expand the narratives of Bryan Edwards...
University of South Carolina Press, 2019. — 280 р. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich. Many famous figures who sailed the Gulf's viridian...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 222 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology). — ISBN: 9780521345224, 9780511558153, 0521396492, 0521345227, 0511558155, 9780521396493. Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large proportion of households to be headed by...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 222 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology). — ISBN: 9780521345224, 9780511558153, 0521396492, 0521345227, 0511558155, 9780521396493. Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large proportion of households to be headed by...
University Press of Florida, 2001. — 256 p. A nautical history of the Cayman Islands, describing how an intrepid group of islanders flourished on the sea. It follows the tracks of the sea turtles and mariners who hunted them, the exploits of pirates and the development of schooners, and goes underwater to explore the sites of the wrecks. This first illustrated nautical history...
Harvard University Press , 2012. — 296 p. — (Harvard Historical Studies). — ISBN: 0674057546, 9780674057548. In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles—outcasts of the new French citizenry—and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler...
Routledge, 2021. — 259 p. Originally published in 1984, this is a documented account of the political history of the former British colony of Guyana. Providing a reflection of the increasing involvement of the United States in the Caribbean and Central America on the long-term political, social and economic effect that intervention can have on the small states of less developed...
University Press of Mississippi, 2012. — 224 p. — (Caribbean Studies Series). — ISBN: 1617033103, 9781617033100. 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, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. — XIII, 241 p. — (New Caribbean Studies). — ISBN: 978-1-349-49468-2, 978-1-137-44103-4. Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways...
SUNY Press, 2016. — 526 p. — (SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science). — ISBN: 978-1438459172, 1438459173. Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique. A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 552 p. Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire...
McClelland and Stewart, 2011. — 450 p. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the United States and the USSR acted out the world's tensions in the Caribbean, using Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets. What neither superpower bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. Red Heat tells the gripping story of the men responsible for...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. — 274 p. — (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague). — ISBN: 978-1-349-43124-3, 978-0-230-59906-2, 978-0-333-71477-5. Development Administration and Development Bureaucracies: Failure of Theory and Practice. Development Goals and their Realization in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. From Riggs to the World Bank: Recurring Associations in the Study of...
Greenwood Press, 2003. — 272 p. The African Diaspora left an indelible imprint on Caribbean countries and islands. This reference, the only broad historical and cultural survey of the black experience in the Caribbean, celebrates the Afro-Caribbean diversity of the countries it profiles. Each of the 15 chapters introduces a country, island, or group of islands, providing an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. List of Illustrations. Framing the Research. Conceptualizing Identity: Ethnicity and Culture. Six Perspectives on Identity and Politics. Ethnopolitics: An Analytic Framework. Ethnicity and Politics in Small Developing States. Guyana: The Uncooperative Republic. Fiji: Indigenous Paramountcy. Trinidad and Tobago: The Politics of Accommodation....
University Press of Florida, 1999. — 252 p. This volume brings together nineteen Caribbean specialists to produce the first general introduction to the indigenous peoples of that region. Writing for both general and academic audiences, contributors provide an authoritative, up-to-date picture of these fascinating peoples - their social organization, religion, language,...
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1990. — 184 p. — ISBN: 0817304622, 9780817304621, 9780817381004. In 1492 the island of Hispaniola was inhabited by the Taíno, an Indian group whose ancestors had moved into the Caribbean archipelago from lowland South America more than 1,500 years before. They were organized politically into large cacicazgos, or chiefdoms, comprising...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 305 p. When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of ''indentured'' labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an initial...
Palmarium Academic Publishing, 2017. — 508 с. Коренные жители Гаити, Кубы, Пуэрто-Рико и Ямайки первыми из обитателей Нового Света встретили в конце XV века европейцев и испытали на себе последствия этой «встречи». Им были навязаны новые для них социальные нормы и система трудовой повинности, которые в течение полувека не только разрушили прежний образ жизни, но и привели к...
М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1950. — 217 с. Уникальная книга Эрика Вильямса - будущего первого премьер-министра (с 1956 года до своей смерти в 1981 году) "маленького острова в Карибском бассейне" (Тринидад и Тобаго). Наперекор буржуазным историкам Карибское рабство и работорговля неграми показаны как существенный фактор развития европейской цивилизации и ее успехов в...
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