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General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Vol 2: New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9781403975904 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 2 of the General History of the Caribbeancovers the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. This volume examines the early mining and planting in Espaniola, privateers and contraband traders, plantation societies, extinction of indigenous populations, and the beginning of the slave trade.
Volume 2 of the General History of the Caribbeancovers the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans a...
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603,81 |
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Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic
ISBN: 9781421405810 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the... Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the sub... |
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121,44 |
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The Buccaneers In The West Indies In The XVII Century
ISBN: 9781440415685 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Christopher Myngs, Montbars the Exterminator, Sir Henry Morgan and Bernard Desjean are just a few of the Buccaneers featured in this well-researched classic. Long out of print and now available with a special Introduction and "Piratologist's Library" bibliography. These special additions are written by noted Piratologist David W. Whitehead, Author of "CryptoQuest Field Guide to Florida Pirates and their Buried Treasure."
Sir Christopher Myngs, Montbars the Exterminator, Sir Henry Morgan and Bernard Desjean are just a few of the Buccaneers featured in this well-research...
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31,73 |
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Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Nationally and Regionally: Politics, Culture and Identity
ISBN: 9781444361544 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rethinking the Cuban Revolution offers new perspectives on the political and cultural life of the Cuban Revolution based on inter-disciplinary methods. Contributions reassess the national survival of the Revolution, and propose new approaches to cultural and political identity in Cuba.
Rethinking the Cuban Revolution offers new perspectives on the political and cultural life of the Cuban Revolution based on inter-disciplinary ...
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97,10 |
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The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation
ISBN: 9781456496739 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as wel...
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67,81 |
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The Bahamas in American History
ISBN: 9781465310828 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,78 |
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The Bahamas in American History
ISBN: 9781465310835 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,63 |
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The Indelible Red Stain: The destruction of a tropical paradise: A cold war story
ISBN: 9781466396401 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1950, Dr Cheddi Jagan began a campaign to transform British Guiana, South America, into a Marxist state, allied with the USSR in the growing Cold War. His failure and the flight of some 500,000 people to North America and Britain are almost forgotten tragedies even among that Diaspora. The Indelible Red Stain, a two-volume blockbuster by Guyanese doctor and political insider, Dr Mohan Ragbeer, tells the story in a masterly way and provides the key to understanding the ruin of Guiana, its bloody race war, and the massive exodus. Ram Jagessar, a Toronto historian, writes, "Dr Mohan Ragbeer...
In 1950, Dr Cheddi Jagan began a campaign to transform British Guiana, South America, into a Marxist state, allied with the USSR in the growing Cold W...
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119,73 |
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Historic Shipwrecks Of The Dominican Republic And Haiti, Second Edition: Their Locations And Provenance
ISBN: 9781467905183 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Second Edition of this very popular book is a compendium of historic shipwrecks surrounding Hispaniola, with a summary of locations and current/previous notable salvage operations including maps, photos and drawings. This edition contains substantial new material regarding numerous wrecks throughout Hispaniola. Several hundred wrecks are listed and the index contains approximatly 1100 page citations. Bibliography included. 200 pages of content in 22 chapters. Compiled by Dr. Lubos Kordac, an able diver who resides in the Dominican Republic and consults as a marine archaeologist. Local...
This Second Edition of this very popular book is a compendium of historic shipwrecks surrounding Hispaniola, with a summary of locations and current/p...
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74,83 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide
ISBN: 9781610690652 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide" captures the historical context, the minute-by-minute drama, and the profound repercussions of the "Missiles of October" confrontation that brought the very real threat of nuclear attack to the United States' doorstep. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the crisis, it takes full advantage of recently opened Soviet archives as well as interviews with key Russian, Cuban, and U.S. officials to explore the event as it played out in Moscow, Havana, Washington, and other locations around the world. "Cuban Missile Crisis" contains an... "Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide" captures the historical context, the minute-by-minute drama, and the profound repercussions o... |
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255,68 |
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The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
ISBN: 9781617033100 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving their unique culture and speaking a language that directly descends from that spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. All trace their origins back to St. Vincent where their ancestors were native Carib Indians and shipwrecked or runaway West African slaves--hence the name by... In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve... |
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442,06 |
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Hope Transformed: A Historical Sketch of the Hope Landscape, St Andrew, Jamaica, 1660-1960
ISBN: 9789766402600 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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272,03 |
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Western Isles of Trinidad
ISBN: 9789769500853 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,16 |
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Murderers Among Us: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti Under Dr. Franois Duvalier, 1962-1971
ISBN: 9781558765429 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,24 |
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Chancellor, I Present...: Outstanding Achievement & Excellence
ISBN: 9789768125514 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,45 |
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The University of the West Indies: A Quinquagenary Calendar 1948-1998
ISBN: 9789766400736 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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213,75 |
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Inside Slavery Process & Legacy
ISBN: 9789768125194 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood's Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in Barbados and other islands (Richard Sheridan), slavery and freedom in Brazil and Louisian
Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include...
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101,97 |
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In the Shadow of the Plantation
ISBN: 9789766370824 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Shadow of the Plantation, so titled to emphasise the historical and contemporary impact of the plantation on all aspects of Caribbean life, reflects on the Caribbean experience from slavery through to the post-independence period. Divided into 4 broad thematic areas - Historiography; Production, Culture and Resistance in the Slavery Era; Forging a New Society; and Political and Socio-cultural Issues - the articles demonstrate the impact of colonialism and the plantation system on Caribbean Life and highlight the efforts that Caribbean peoples have made to uplift themselves from the...
In the Shadow of the Plantation, so titled to emphasise the historical and contemporary impact of the plantation on all aspects of Caribbean life, ref...
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101,10 |
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October 1962: The Missile Crisis as Seen from Cuba
ISBN: 9780873489560 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,93 |
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Livestock, Sugar and Slavery
ISBN: 9789766372569 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The economic and social history of Jamaica has been dominated by a tradition of scholarship that has tended to focus on the study of the ruling sugar planter elite - the 'sugarocracy'- considered more socially significant than non-sugar producers. Indeed, non-sugar producers. Indeed, non-sugar producing units have been regarded as representing a 'divergent pattern' of social and economic development. Livestock, Sugar and Slavery broadens the economic and social history of Jamaica by turning the spotlight on those involved in raising livestock rather than sugar cane in colonial Jamaica....
"The economic and social history of Jamaica has been dominated by a tradition of scholarship that has tended to focus on the study of the ruling sugar...
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116,03 |
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