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The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
ISBN: 9780822344865 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a vernacular politics based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the...
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest ...
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524,64 |
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An Intellectual History of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781403966773 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean, the study considers major questions in the field.
This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the regi...
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442,79 |
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Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900
ISBN: 9781558761223 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rather than celebrating the victors, the author has composed the book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed and exploited.
A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rath...
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114,73 |
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History of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781558765603 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An academic paperback edition of this book which includes an extensive bibliographical essay. It intertwines the socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and provide new insights for specialists.
An academic paperback edition of this book which includes an extensive bibliographical essay. It intertwines the socioeconomics of the Caribbean with ...
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123,24 |
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Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment
ISBN: 9781844674664 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of democracy in Haiti and abroad. The elaborate campaign to suppress Lavalas was perhaps the most successful act of imperial...
Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the...
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113,84 |
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Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
ISBN: 9781846270727 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples - and determined the destiny of one family over four centuries
An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples - and determined the destiny of one family over four c...
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50,28 |
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Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite
ISBN: 9789766401504 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite. It offers an interdisciplinary range of studies that range from analyses of Braithwaithe's creative and critical work to interventions in the fields of social history, cultural studies, gender studies, linguistics and sociology, that have been either directly or indirectly influenced by Braithwaite's own pioneering work in Caribbean social history and cultural studies. The manuscript offers the most current critical commentary on the work and ideas...
The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite. It o...
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174,88 |
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Caribbean Heritage
ISBN: 9789766402648 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an important entree into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage. Included are several topics that represent the rich plurality of the Caribbean experience, such as symbolism, popular culture, literature, linguistics, pedagogy, philanthropy, natural history, land tenure, townscapes, archaeology and museology. Given its multidisciplinary approach, Caribbean Heritage will have considerable appeal to a wide range of scholars such as folklorists, environmentalists, heritage professionals, linguists, librarians, cultural studies experts, historians,...
This volume provides an important entree into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage. Included are several topics that represent th...
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174,88 |
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Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
ISBN: 9780822356066 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979 1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the possibility of a break from colonial and neocolonial oppression, and hope for egalitarian change and social and political justice. The Revolution's collapse in 1983 was devastating to a revolutionary generation. In hindsight, its demise signaled the end of an era of revolutionary socialist...
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demis...
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456,63 |
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Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
ISBN: 9780822356219 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979 1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the possibility of a break from colonial and neocolonial oppression, and hope for egalitarian change and social and political justice. The Revolution's collapse in 1983 was devastating to a revolutionary generation. In hindsight, its demise signaled the end of an era of revolutionary socialist...
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demis...
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121,40 |
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Giron La Verdadera Historia
ISBN: 9780897297387 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An eyewitness account about what really happened before, during and after the 2506 Assault Brigade-a force of U.S. trained Cuban exiles-invaded Fidel Castro's Cuba in April 1961. An action filled personal account with new recently released declassified information and eyewitness accounts. Enrique Ros was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba and graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Havana and the University of Miami. A founder of the Christian Democratic Movement in Cuba, he fought Castro's Communitist ideologies from the start. He lives in Miami where he helps his daughter,...
An eyewitness account about what really happened before, during and after the 2506 Assault Brigade-a force of U.S. trained Cuban exiles-invaded Fidel ...
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127,50 |
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The History of the Saxons Junkanoo Group (The Early Years): Stories of a Forgotten Bahamian Culture
ISBN: 9781484132210 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description of the History of the Saxons (The Early Years) The Bahamas was regarded as a country of a friendly, caring, happy, loving, talented, blessed and godly people whose cultural expression was admired and envied by the rest of the world. Visitors who were lured to our shores by the beautiful, sunny beaches returned in droves to bathe in the warmth of the Bahamian people. They boasted of our smiling faces, friendly greetings, unique architecture, historical sites and monuments, talented entertainers, excellent service, tasty native dishes, refreshing Bahamian beverages, exhilarating...
Description of the History of the Saxons (The Early Years) The Bahamas was regarded as a country of a friendly, caring, happy, loving, talented, bless...
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299,33 |
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The History of the Island of Dominica: Containing a Description of Its Situation, Extent, Climate, Mountains, Rivers, Natural Productions, &C. &C.
ISBN: 9780415760973 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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223,41 |
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History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896
ISBN: 9780415760980 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work covers the period of rapid expansion after the British conquest in 1797 until the colony was faced with dislocations coinciding with the emancipation of the slaves.
This work covers the period of rapid expansion after the British conquest in 1797 until the colony was faced with dislocations coinciding with the ema...
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223,41 |
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History of Barbados
ISBN: 9780415761017 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No further information has been provided for this title.
No further information has been provided for this title.
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223,41 |
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Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions: Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom
ISBN: 9780761862567 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick Douglass and Langston Hughes. This book not only examines the multiple legacies and the problems of Enlightenment modernity, imperial colonialism, Western racism, and hegemony, but also studies their...
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that...
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179,74 |
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822356882 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an...
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of it...
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437,21 |
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822357001 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an...
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of it...
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116,54 |
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Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica
ISBN: 9780826519788 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans.
Galvin highlights the unique alliance... Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and m...
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538,18 |
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Test Your Jamaica IQ: BLACK & WHITE Version
ISBN: 9780989917209 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the BLACK & WHITE Version of this Book Jamaica, one of the most beautiful and serene places in the entire world... 'Test Your Jamaica IQ, ' is intended to educate Jamaicans and lovers of Jamaica about its people, rich heritage and culture. It's definitely a brain teaser that will require your thinking cap. No cheating allowed, don't rush to the back of the book to get the answers. Get a blank paper and pencil and see how much you really know about this great country. And by the way, don't get side-tracked with the beauty shots, stay focused and aim to pass the test. Shoot us an email...
This is the BLACK & WHITE Version of this Book Jamaica, one of the most beautiful and serene places in the entire world... 'Test Your Jamaica IQ, ' i...
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