The Walker Brothers And Their Legacy
by David Gleave and Maria Downer
The Dominican Republic was once celebrated as a mulatto racial paradise. Now the island nation is idealized as a white, Hispanic nation, having abandoned its many Haitian and black influences. The possible causes of this shift in ideologies between popular expressions of Dominican identity and official nationalism has long been debated by historians, political scientists, and journalists. In The Mulatto Republic, April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin...
Anuario Historico Cubanoamericano (Anuario Historico Cubanoamericano, #1)
by Antonio a Acosta, Ivan Acosta, and Enrique del Risco Arrocha
Tesauro de Datos Histc3ricos (Tesauro de Datos Historicos Indice Compendioso)
by Adolfo De Hostos
Les Colonies Francaises: Notices Illustrees. Saint Pierre Et Miquelon (Histoire)
by de Henrique L
UNION ISLAND'S HISTORY Servitude Metayage And Civilization
by Josiah Stewart
Blind Over Cuba (Foreign Relations and the Presidency)
by David M Barrett and Max Holland
In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the "photo gap": five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated. In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular perception of the Kennedy administration's handling of the Soviet Union's surreptitious deployment of missiles in t...
Living on a Caribbean Island (World Cultures)
by Louise Spilsbury and Richard Spilsbury
What type of music do the Creole play? How do you catch a land crab? How do you dance the limbo? Guadeloupe is an island in the Caribbean Sea. The people who live there are mostly Creole. In this book, you will learn all about the way they live. It is always warm in the Caribbean, but hurricanes are common. Most houses are made of concrete to keep them from blowing away.
Bread, or Bullets! is the first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba. Based on research in libraries and archives in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands, it focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free labor and in the last decades of Spanish colonial rule in Cuba.Nineteenth-century Cuban colonial society and the slavery system sharply divided Cuba's inhabitants by race and origi...
This wide-ranging book looks at the reality of how pirates lived and operated, from the ancient world right up to the pirates of today's cargo ships or luxury yachts in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. The History of Pirates also examines the actions and pirate ethics of less famous pirates and their eras, such as the Japanese pirates of the 13th-16th centuries and Zheng Yi and his wife's pirate alliance in 19th century China. With features on particular pirates such as Blackbeard and...
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 familiar tale of hostilities, the systemic perspective reveals a lesser-known, "unitarian" narrative of interdependencies and reciprocal influences shaping each country'sidentity. In view of the sociocultural and econo...
First and Second Declarations of Havana