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Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal
ISBN: 9780739117750 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, and earthquakes. Anita M. Waters argues that the plans for Port Royal's heritage tourism development represent a chronological record of historical revisionism, and the fact that none of the plans has been realized reflects post-colonial social processes and national ambivalence about piratical and naval history. This interdisciplinary study will be valuable reading...
Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port ...
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The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti
ISBN: 9780742538313 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept to power in 1991 as the champion of Haiti's impoverished majority and their demand for a more just, equal, and participatory democratic society, the charismatic priest-turned-president was overthrown by the military just seven months into his first term. Popular resistance to the junta compelled the United States to lead a multinational force to restore Aristide to power in 1994 to serve out the remainder of his...
This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jea...
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204,87 |
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The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780742555044 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently...
Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church...
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546,32 |
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The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780742555051 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently...
Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church...
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146,34 |
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La Mafia de la Habana: Nuestra Cosa Nostra
ISBN: 9780759661998 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 |
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Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995, newly revised edition
ISBN: 9780761831778 / Angielski / Miękka / 882 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, incorporates new research and up-to-date orthography of Creole since the publication of the second edition in 1996. Written in Blood remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English, and one of the most complete in any language.
This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, incorporates new research and up-to-date orthography of Creole since the pu...
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399,98 |
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The Haunting Past: Politics, Economics and Race in Caribbean Life
ISBN: 9780765600134 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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139,61 |
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Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780765602459 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.
A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with i...
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707,28 |
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Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780765602466 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.
A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with i...
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229,20 |
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Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
ISBN: 9780765602473 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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707,28 |
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Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience
ISBN: 9780765803078 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the -ideal- family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and contributed to survival was in fact the strength of family connections, their inclusivity and support. This study is based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of forty-five... Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men... |
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707,28 |
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The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba
ISBN: 9780786414154 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflict in Cuba is not new. Since early in Cuba's colonial history a small elite has used centralized power to rule for what its members viewed as the common good, which often coincided with their own good. Political officials often took advantage of their situation and created monopolies which limited accountability, social mobility, fair play, and economic development - the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. This work traces this ethos, the efforts to change it, and its manifestations in present-day Cuba.
Conflict in Cuba is not new. Since early in Cuba's colonial history a small elite has used centralized power to rule for what its members viewed as th...
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193,58 |
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The Cuban Family: Custom and Change in an Era of Hardship
ISBN: 9780786416776 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores how the relationships of blood, marriage, sex and residence work in each type of Cuban family, particularly as it is affected by Cuba's struggle to transform its economy. It also examines historical perspectives on the contemporary Cuban family and ethnicity.
This work explores how the relationships of blood, marriage, sex and residence work in each type of Cuban family, particularly as it is affected by Cu...
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220,07 |
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Caribbean Contours
ISBN: 9780801832727 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Caribbean Contours eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demographics and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.
In Caribbean Contours eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demographics and cultu...
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138,63 |
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Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918
ISBN: 9780801877469 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies--with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a -dialectical pluralist- model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar -melting pot- or -pure pluralist- model. In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in t... |
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146,34 |
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Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba
ISBN: 9780803292659 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In her scholarly but often fascinating study, Schwartz examines the changing ideas of leisure and recreation in Havana, the 'Paris of the Antilles' to which U.S. tourists thronged for its forbidden enticements and never-ending cabaret. Schwartz's report is heavily tinged with politics, of course, but high spirits and nostalgia also seep from its pages."-Miami Herald. "A well-researched description of tourism in Cuba, mainly from the Twenties to the Sixties. The emphasis is on American tourists, the most numerous until Castro, and the history is chronological, showing how World Wars I and II...
"In her scholarly but often fascinating study, Schwartz examines the changing ideas of leisure and recreation in Havana, the 'Paris of the Antilles' t...
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77,99 |
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The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780
ISBN: 9780804747134 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cuba who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a miraculous image of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre. In reconstructing this history, the book reveals that in Cuba's eastern region, slavery to the King became a very ambiguous form of slavery that evolved into forms of freedom unprecedented in other colonial societies of the New World. The author studies the relations that developed between the Virgin, the King, and the royal slaves as the...
This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cuba who were slaves belonging...
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146,29 |
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Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History
ISBN: 9780804751056 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo's exceptionally enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes. The author reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime's mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation's...
This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the r...
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121,89 |
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On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
ISBN: 9780807824870 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the rich cultural ties between Cuba and the United States and reveals their startling influence on the way Cubans see themselves as a people and as a nation. In a sweeping multilayered history, Prez explores the intertwined lives of Cubans and Americans from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s to show how deeply each nation influenced the other. Using an array of sources, from music to oral history to popular magazines and movies, he provides a convincing and kaleidoscopic interpretation filled with colorful personalities. He concludes with a brilliant discussion of the cultural...
Explores the rich cultural ties between Cuba and the United States and reveals their startling influence on the way Cubans see themselves as a people ...
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204,87 |
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Modern Caribbean
ISBN: 9780807842409 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark the region, the authors offer readers a thorough understanding of the Caribbean's history and culture. The essays also comment thoughtfully on the problems that confront the Caribbean in today's world.
The essays focus on the Caribbean island and the mainland enclaves of Belize and the Guianas. Topics examined... This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Ca...
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195,11 |
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