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Silk City: I Shall Not Want
ISBN: 9780615591889 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rich historical story of young girl forced to move from a tropical island Puerto Rico, to the cosmopolitan city, of Paterson, New Jersey. A young girl's fantasy and childhood memories helps survive turmiol high school years as she learns to love the city called Silk City. Both city and island compared and loved with developmental historical facts, as the girl conquers tough enviroment in the city.
Rich historical story of young girl forced to move from a tropical island Puerto Rico, to the cosmopolitan city, of Paterson, New Jersey. A young girl...
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47,89 |
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Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
ISBN: 9780765602480 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the "male"...
This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the Bri...
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194,26 |
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Old Board House: A Glance at Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9781449568214 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paradoxical T&T is revealed in this semi-satirical work with an engaging final Chapter, The Panacea. The twin island nation's fantastic as well as grotesque features, history, culture, politics, economy, people and society are spilled across the pages of Old Board House: A Glance at Trinidad and Tobago. Years of study, research and meticulous observation have given birth to another exciting, enjoyable and educational expose by author Chad Modeste."
Paradoxical T&T is revealed in this semi-satirical work with an engaging final Chapter, The Panacea. The twin island nation's fantastic as well as gro...
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87,60 |
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José Martí: Images of Memory and Mourning
ISBN: 9780230340756 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical study of visual representations of Jose Marti The National Hero of Cuba, and the discourses of power that make it possible for Marti's images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Marti's icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also, the obsessive reproduction of Marti's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to "forget Marti," the book concludes that the utopian...
This book is a critical study of visual representations of Jose Marti The National Hero of Cuba, and the discourses of power that make it possible for...
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201,24 |
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A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
ISBN: 9781603846219 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ligon's "True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados" is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the early modern Atlantic world. . . . I cannot think of any scholar better prepared to write an Introduction that places Ligon, his text, and Barbados in an Atlantic historical context. The Introduction is quite thorough, readable, and accurate; the notes are] exemplary ...
Ligon's "True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados" is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the sevente...
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242,90 |
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In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
ISBN: 9780807872840 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade."
Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled... In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the e...
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218,60 |
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The Grinder: One Community's Journey Through Pain and Hope from the Great Haiti Earthquake
ISBN: 9781492104902 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Grinder provides a glimpse into the lives beyond the news cameras of a number of interconnected survivors in the mountains of southern Haiti during and after the earthquake of January 12, 2010. The sacred spirit of community, brotherhood, and solidarity is discovered by these people as each one tells their story of "what they lived" drawing them closer together to find a healing strength in their relationships to each other. One American who finds himself there with them during and after the disaster collects their stories and shares his own as it gets knitted into the fabric of the...
The Grinder provides a glimpse into the lives beyond the news cameras of a number of interconnected survivors in the mountains of southern Haiti durin...
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63,82 |
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Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969
ISBN: 9780230278189 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration po...
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201,24 |
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique
ISBN: 9780812222272 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in European demand for sugar, coffee, and indigo. Like other colonial subjects, Martinicans met the labor needs of cash-crop cultivation by establishing plantations worked by enslaved Africans and by adopting the rigidly hierarchical social structure that accompanied chattel slavery. After Haiti gained its independence in 1804, Martinique's... From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost... |
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135,98 |
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General History of the Caribbean - UNESCO: Autochthonous Societies
ISBN: 9781403975898 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.
Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various po...
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885,61 |
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1963-A Landmark Year in St. Martin: A Retrospective Look
ISBN: 9781465387158 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,88 |
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General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 5: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781403975935 / Angielski / Twarda / 801 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic, political, religious, social and cultural history of this period brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.
Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its ...
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885,61 |
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Debt of the Black Race
ISBN: 9781477684177 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Debt of the Black Race" makes the case about why every member of the Black race owes a Debt of Gratitude to Haiti, the first Black Republic. Facts to support such claim are found within. Anyone who doubts such claim should find out, and those who challenge them should come forward with own supporting documents because it is time to get the facts straight on the subject. At the end, the reader will agree with me that someday Haiti will rise from the ashes and be able to use those words of Martin Luther: "Free at last, free at last... thank God Almighty, I am free at last "
"Debt of the Black Race" makes the case about why every member of the Black race owes a Debt of Gratitude to Haiti, the first Black Republic. Facts to...
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99,78 |
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Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition
ISBN: 9780253006271 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aime Cesaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946. Walsh emphasizes the connections between these events and the distinct legacies of emancipation that emerged through the narratives of revolution and nationhood passed on to successive generations. Part one concerns... In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aime Cesaire to examine how they conceived of and ... |
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306,04 |
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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
ISBN: 9780807150085 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery agitation and slave insurrection that eventually influenced the dismantling of slavery in British-held territories. Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica... In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in... |
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116,54 |
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Torn Between Empires
ISBN: 9780820341651 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery, Luis Martinez-Fernandez points out profound, underlying balance-of-power transformations during a time of ostensibly small change in the region s political status."
This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle...
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176,97 |
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Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838
ISBN: 9789766402693 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British Parliament's decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807 had disastrous implications for plantation societies, such as Jamaica, in regards to the health and the labour of the enslaved population. Many of the Jamaican sugar planters could not accept the fact that the 1807 Abolition Act was a watershed moment which demanded a more conciliatory form of management and a willingness to implement critical labour reforms, such as task work. The failure to introduce these necessary internal reforms resulted in the continuing decline in the plantations' crude production figures and in...
The British Parliament's decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807 had disastrous implications for plantation societies, such as Jamaica, in regards...
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121,40 |
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
ISBN: 9789766402686 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,04 |
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Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
ISBN: 9789766403157 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm, and solving a wide range of everyday problems--positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations....
"More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British We...
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121,40 |
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
ISBN: 9789766403492 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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306,04 |
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