Offers a comprehensive guide to the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean.
This volume brings together nineteen Caribbean specialists who provide an authoritative picture of the region's indigenous peoples -- their social organization, religion, language, lifeways, and contribution to the culture of their modern ...
The Making ofHai'ti: The Saint-Domingue Revolution from Below. ... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Geggus, David. 2002. ... Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St John: Three Centuries ofAfro— Caribbean Life.
Tracing the origins and developments of the Caribbean region, Book 1 starts with Early Civilisation, Tribes and Settlers, followed by Colonisation and Plantations in Book 2.
This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.
In this timely volume, Keith Tinker explores the flow of peoples to and from the Bahamas and assesses the impact of various migrant groups on the character of the islands' society and identity.
In the pages of Island People we hear the voices of the Caribbean people, explore their home and learn what it means to them, and to the world.
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and ...
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This major six-volume project covers the historical experience of the peoples and societies of the Caribbean region from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. This volume...
This book addresses the social implications of climate change and climatic variability on indigenous peoples and communities living in the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.