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  • The Arawak:

    History and Culture of the Natives of South America and the Caribbean Encountered by Christopher Columbus

    Are you interested in Caribbean history? More specifically, in the Arawakan people?One of the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean, the Arawakans are a fascinating study in how culture and social order can be disrupted and wiped out by one historical event – the colonizers’ arrival.This account explores the Arawakan people and their culture in detail, together with an exploration of the events ... Read more

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  • B.S. Adkison's Real, True-Life War Story

    by B.S. Adkison ...
    B.S. Adkison's Real, True-Life War Story is more important than this name and title suggests: While there is not much war in this story, there is even less BS. Here are some life lessons that face anyone who dares to open their eyes. Things that many will find shocking but are common knowledge for most of the rest of the world. A bitter pill with a sweet aftertaste for those with an open mind. ... Read more

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  • How Human Rights Can Build Haiti

    Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign

    by Fran Quigley ...
    A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde

    Postmodernism as Post-nationalism

    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation’s commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three ... Read more

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  • The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

    This study traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt with the Puerto Rican status question in such detail.The central problem in the status debate has been: how to strike a happy balance between Puerto Rico’s economic needs, which ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas

    New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire

    Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the ... Read more

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  • Mapping Water in Dominica

    Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation ... Read more

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  • Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition

    Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

    Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

    Series series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
    Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the ... Read more

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  • Nos hommes et notre histoire

    Notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

    Series series Oeuvres de Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes
    J’aime le Créole de couleur. Je l’aime surtout quand il parle ma langue. Il est alors un peu mon cousin.Qu’importe la teinte de la peau? Son père était venu ici de Marseilles peut-être ou de Bordeaux, mes ancêtres à moi étaient partis du Hâvre: Provence, Guyenne ou Normandie, n’est-ce pas toujours la France?… Non, je ne veux pas, comme le terre à terre Anglo-saxon ou le protestant étroit, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uriah's War

    by Andrea Levy ...
    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. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Chronicles of Pirates – The Truth Behind the Legends: Complete History of Piracy & Biographies of the Most Famous Buccaneers (9 Books in One Volume)

    This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Howard Pyle) The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates (Ralph D. Paine) The Pirates Own Book: ... Read more

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  • Resumen de Cesarismo Democrático de Laureano Vallenilla

    by Alberto Sosa ...
    Este es uno de los libros básicos para entender la historia de Venezuela y el proceso de su formación como Estado-nación desde su violenta separación de España hasta 1919. No obstante, muchos de los señalamientos hechos por el autor, Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, pueden servir de insumos para explicar situaciones de la actualidad en Hispanoamérica. ... Read more

    $1.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Castaway in Jamaica, Illustrated.

    by W E Sewell ...
    This is an unflattering account of a visit to the island during the mid nineteenth century by an American who was not a voluntary tourist. ... Read more

    $1.24 CAD

  • Negro Companions of the Spanish Explorers

    "Wright said that with Columbus, Balboa, Cortez, Narvaez and their colleagues there were negro associates in the hazardous and perilous work of discovery and settlement." -Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), April 11, 1901"Negroes connected with Spanish explorers rendered conspicuous service...disciplining and subduing the natives." - Recollecting History Beyond Borders Captives, Acrobats, Dancers ... Read more

    $1.24 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

    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 into the Igbo people, Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped along with his sister at age eleven and eventually sold to European slave traders and taken to Barbados.  After a brief stint there, he was transported to ... Read more

    $1.24 CAD

  • Haiti: Past, Present, Future

    The mystery of Haiti's history is a story waiting to be told. Today, the reality of Haiti's need has captivated the global community. As the poorest country in the western hemisphere, there seems to be little hope. Opportunity awaits like never before for the country once known as the Pearl of the Antillies.You may be newly aware to understanding the history of Haiti, or could have been an ... Read more

    $1.24 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Columbus De Ontdekker van Amerika

    Columbus: De ontdekker van Amerika door John S. C. AbbottHet verhaal van de ontdekking van Amerika door Christopher Columbus. ... Read more

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  • In Old Roseau. Reminiscences of life as I found it in the island of Dominica, and among the Carib Indians

    "It was noon that day when we entered the Carib reservation and found ourselves at last in the El Dorado I had so fondly pictured in my imagination.""In Old Roseau" is the title of a thoroughly charming little volume by Dr. William S. Birge (1857-1925) published in 1900, dealing with life on Dominica, one of the little Windward Isles in the Carribean. Dr. Birge spent some time in old Roseau, the ... Read more

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  • Los Puertos de Venezuela (El Desafío de la Historia, Vol. 45)

    Una característica de la historia de Venezuela es que entre nuestros ancestros está el elemento foráneo, ya sea de los inmigrantes de la posguerra o más remoto, como los conquistadores hispanos, todos venimos de extranjeros. Pero ¿por dónde llegaron?Usualmente estos personajes llegaban por barco, atracando en un puerto, que para ellos representaba el comienzo de una nueva vida, de una aventura, de ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piratas en las costas venezolanas (El Desafío de la Historia. Vol. 13)

    Muy pocas imágenes superan en la fantasía universal a la que se tiene del pirata: “corsario que roba por la mar”, como lo precisa el antiguo diccionario de don Sebastián de Covarrubias. Pirata y mar son entonces una sola expresión. Y aunque hoy se los tiene también en el aire y en la tierra, y desde luego en el ciberespacio, pues no importa demasiado para la imaginación. Una pata de palo, un ... Read more

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  • Bless Britain: A Caribbean Coup d'Etat

    by George Hodge ...
    Bless Britain – A Caribbean Coup d’Etat, a true saga of centuries of neglect suffered by a unique set of Caribbean islanders, culminating in the eventual invasion of Anguilla - "the mouse that roared!" - by the British lion and told through poetic pieces from the unpublished 5-Act, 23-scene (modeled after Shakespeare's) play with colour commentary. ... Read more

    $1.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave. With 10 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio Link.

    by Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Great Britain. It describes in detail Prince’s enslavement and sufferings as a slave – from the age of ten – in Bermuda, Turks Island, and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828.Prince escaped from Wood and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where ... Read more

    $1.63 CAD

  • A Sea of Pirates: The West Indies 1805, Illustrated.

    by Peter Grotjan ...
    A brief account of the adventurers of a Philadelphia merchant sailing the piratical waters of the West Indies in the early 19th century. ... Read more

    $1.86 CAD