A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, hundreds of photographs, and much more, including walking and driving tours, visitor information directories, and cultural sidebars.
In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands.
An academic paperback edition of this book which includes an extensive bibliographical essay.
Thirdly, colonial government was minority government. The Crown Colony system, right up until ... One of the peculiarities of the British West Indian colonies was their unique demographic composition. Unlike the vast majority of slave ...
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 ...
The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean.
Written in a lively and accessible style yet current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.
common services in such areas as sea and air transport, health, culture and communications, labour relations, and foreign policy.118 There were constructive achievements in the Williams era. The government persuaded the U.S. Navy to ...
"Introductory text to political and economic development of the Caribbean and Central America. Useful for undergraduate courses"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
The Islands of the Caribbean Sea Reference Book is a one-of-a-kind reference book on the Caribbean, or the West Indies as some prefer to say.
His effrontery is perhaps most evident in the ceremonies for his younger brother, Kouzen Zaka (or Azaka). In some ways the Vodou characterizations of Zaka resemble those of Gede, but for the most part he is differentiated from Gede by ...