|
Latin America
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Global Perspectives #1: Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation by Philip Scher Publisher Comments Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, a[HG1] nd Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Alabi's World (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture) by Richard Price Publisher Comments Alabi's World relates the history of a nation founded by escaped slaves deep in the Latin American rain forest. It tells of the black men and women's bloody battles for independence, their uneasy truce with the colonial government, and the attempt of... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santera to Obeah and Espiritismo (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity) by Mar Fernandez Olmos Publisher Comments Much as we “select” computer settings by default—reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options—we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (New Americanists) by Michelle A Stephens Publisher Comments In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Pathology & Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad by Roland Littlewood Publisher Comments An anthropological study of the Earth People, a new Caribbean religion led by Mother Earth.... (read more) List Price $163.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The History of Mary Prince (Penguin Classics) by Mary Prince Publisher Comments The first (1831) life of a black woman to be published in Britain. New in Penguin Classics.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean (11 Edition) by Alex Von Vontunzelman Publisher Comments From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Indian Summer During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While the United States and the Soviet Union acted out the worlds tensions on Cuba, Haiti, and the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Last Resorts 2ND Edition by Polly Pattullo Publisher Comments The Caribbean has the fortune—and the misfortune̬to be everyone's idea of a tropical paradise. Its sun, sand and scenery attract millions of visitors each year and make it a profitable destination for the world's fastest growing industry... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Latin American Histories Series) by Franklin Knight Publisher Comments Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn Publisher Comments By the 1930s Western books about China were common. But a book about the West, and particularly London, written by a Chinese author, was a rarity -- and continues to be so. Chiang Yee's account of London, first published in 1938, is original in more ways... (read more) List Price $12.80 Your price: $11.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker Publisher Comments Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Comments From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Indian Summer During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While the United States and the Soviet Union acted out the worlds tensions on Cuba, Haiti, and the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy by Alejandro Portes Publisher Comments This book studies urbanization in five countries-Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatamala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica-during the 1980s and 1990s, when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Contemporary Caribbean: Life, History and Culture Since 1945 (Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds) by Olwyn M Blouet Publisher Comments A comprehensive history of the Caribbean region since 1945, covering developments in culture, economics and politics.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? by Philip P. Boucher Publisher Comments Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Concise History of the Caribbean. B.W. Higman (Cambridge Concise Histories) by B. W. Higman Publisher Comments A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of... (read more) Your price: $24.75 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Haiti: A Shattered Nation by Elizabeth Abbott Publisher Comments Haiti is the definitive inside account of the Duvaliers--father and son--and their legacy. In 1803, the enslaved people of Haiti vanquished their French masters after a bloody war that left tens of thousands dead. In 1986, Haitians celebrated victory, as... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Contributions in Legal Studies #8: Constraint of Empire: The United States and Caribbean Interventions by Whitney T Perkins Review Perkins examines U.S. foreign policy in four Caribbean nations (Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua) from 1898 to the present....The author has published other worthwhile works on related topics; this one will be of primary interest to... (read more) List Price $152.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 by Eric Williams Publisher Comments From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women by Rosanne Kanhai Publisher Comments In contemporary times, the bindi (red dot between the eyebrows) is decorative is well as religious, and is worn by women of any marital status, Hindu or non-Hindu, in India, its diaspora and globally. Rosanne Kanhai uses the bindi to characterize how... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
