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La Magdalena: The Story of Tobago 1498 to 1898
ISBN: 9780595322992 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of the author's home, Tobago, one of the Windward Islands and now part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. In the era of tobacco, indigo and sugar, its fertility was sought after by Courlanders (Latvians), the Dutch, the French and English. The cultivation of sugar became supreme and with it the necessity for slave labour to work the plantations. Beyond their own requirements there was a demand for slaves by the Spanish settlements and this the Courlanders and the Dutch were tempted to satisfy. But wars in Europe had the habit of over-spilling into the Caribbean and Tobago...
This is a history of the author's home, Tobago, one of the Windward Islands and now part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. In the era of tobacco, ...
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121,20 zł |
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Twelve Degrees North
ISBN: 9780595403202 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Twelve Degrees North" is the story of a country and its people, as seen through the eyes of one of its sons, Richard John. The story of a country and a young man's life, it recounts how his life was affected in one way or another, by the events that happened in his country, from his early childhood to his adult life. It tells o f the changes from the early settlers to the American intervention in nineteen eighty-three. It's a special documentation of one's love for his country, and what his nation is all about.
"Twelve Degrees North" is the story of a country and its people, as seen through the eyes of one of its sons, Richard John. The story of a country and...
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60,49 zł |
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Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9780595425020 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A full decade before the horrific attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came under its own terrorist assault from a small fundamentalist Muslim group known as the Jamaat al Muslimeen.
For six days in 1990, the country, a former British colony that had achieved its independence in 1962, was virtually held for ransom as the terrorists launched an armed invasion of the sitting Parliament and the country's lone television station. "Days of Wrath" recounts the six days of terror wrought by a handful of Muslim terrorists.... A full decade before the horrific attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came unde...
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69,16 zł |
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The Prize: Haiti's National Palace
ISBN: 9780595441310 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
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Tubal Uriah Butler of Trinidad and Tobago Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana: The Road to Independence
ISBN: 9780595458585 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explodes myths on the decolonization process in former British colonies of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana. Myths that masked the fact that the British colonial overlord with the full support of their local lackeys stage managed the process to ensure that compliant regimes were put in place as the inheritors of Independence from the British. Tubal Uriah Butler was systematically destroyed as a political leader to end his threat to the political order as he was not of the required material to be an inheritor of Independence. Kwame Nkrumah was fit to rule Ghana but he was subsequently...
This work explodes myths on the decolonization process in former British colonies of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana. Myths that masked the fact that th...
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77,84 zł |
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La Magdalena: The Story of Tobago 1498 to 1898
ISBN: 9780595786299 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of the author's home, Tobago, one of the Windward Islands and now part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. In the era of tobacco, indigo and sugar, its fertility was sought after by Courlanders (Latvians), the Dutch, the French and English. The cultivation of sugar became supreme and with it the necessity for slave labour to work the plantations. Beyond their own requirements there was a demand for slaves by the Spanish settlements and this the Courlanders and the Dutch were tempted to satisfy. But wars in Europe had the habit of over-spilling into the Caribbean and Tobago...
This is a history of the author's home, Tobago, one of the Windward Islands and now part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. In the era of tobacco, ...
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164,57 zł |
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Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9780595886463 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A full decade before the horrific attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came under its own terrorist assault from a small fundamentalist Muslim group known as the Jamaat al Muslimeen.
For six days in 1990, the country, a former British colony that had achieved its independence in 1962, was virtually held for ransom as the terrorists launched an armed invasion of the sitting Parliament and the country's lone television station. "Days of Wrath" recounts the six days of terror wrought by a handful of Muslim terrorists.... A full decade before the horrific attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came unde...
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112,53 zł |
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Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba
ISBN: 9780671872991 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily detailed and engrossing, revealing a country on the brink of disaster. He uncovers Castro's never-before reported efforts to radicalize Noriega's regime in Panama, the failure of his Zero Option plan to...
Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled...
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134,21 zł |
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Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground
ISBN: 9780674016125 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the ideological, political, and strategic debates... Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of... |
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152,61 zł |
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
ISBN: 9780674018266 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the southern United States, reinforcing the most fervent hopes of slaves and the worst...
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters...
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136,58 zł |
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
ISBN: 9780679724674 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a... A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive acco... |
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82,39 zł |
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A History of the West Indies : Containing the Natural, Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Each Island
ISBN: 9780714619330 / Angielski / Twarda / 1472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disappointed with the purely secular tone of the earlier West Indian histories, Thomas Coke concentrated on the history of the missions in the Caribbean. Written immediately after the abolition of slavery, but 25 years before emancipation, and based on a wealth of documentation - including much from records that no longer exist - this work has become a classic account of the early Protestant missions.
Disappointed with the purely secular tone of the earlier West Indian histories, Thomas Coke concentrated on the history of the missions in the Caribbe...
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1945,13 zł |
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History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896
ISBN: 9780714619378 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 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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752,12 zł |
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The History of Barbados : From the First Discovery of the Island, in the Year 1605, till the Accessio
ISBN: 9780714619453 / Angielski / Twarda / 722 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers the latter part of the 18th century and is political in nature.
Covers the latter part of the 18th century and is political in nature.
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700,25 zł |
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History of Barbados
ISBN: 9780714619484 / Angielski / Twarda / 772 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic in West Indian history is invaluable, not only for a study of the history of Barbados, but for its wealth of information about the island.
This classic in West Indian history is invaluable, not only for a study of the history of Barbados, but for its wealth of information about the island...
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700,25 zł |
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An Historical Account of the Island of St Vincent
ISBN: 9780714619514 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, this book being dedicated to the British survivors. But having had access to several contemporary diaries and having interviewed survivors, he was able to correct and expand the narratives of Bryan Edwards and Dr Coke, making this work the most detailed account of the overthrow of a unique people.
Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, thi...
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477,15 zł |
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Out of Slavery: Abolition and After
ISBN: 9780714632605 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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752,12 zł |
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Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion
ISBN: 9780714632629 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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171,12 zł |
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After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society
ISBN: 9780714633572 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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752,12 zł |
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Cuba After Thirty Years: Rectification and the Revolution
ISBN: 9780714633909 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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752,12 zł |
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