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“edith b blake”

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  • History of West Indies

    by Edith B. Blake, Felix L. Oswald ...
    Had those islands any aborigines when discovered by Europeans? If there were natives, do any of them remain?The West Indies, or Antilles, consist of many hundreds, or even—reckoning keys or very small islands—several thousand islands varying in area from those which, like Cuba and Jamaica, number their square acres by the million, to the tiny key of half an acre or less. The greater number of ... Read more

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  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance

    by Emily Zobel Marshall ...
    This is an interdisciplinary and international study which examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

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  • The Sea Rover's Practice

    by Benerson Little ...
    To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic clich?. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves, and paradoxically it is the picaresque imagery of Pyle, Wyeth, Sabatini, and Hollywood that is often closer ... Read more

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  • The Immaculate Invasion

    by Bob Shacochis ...
    "Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti." — Chicago TribuneWidely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis's The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti.In 1994, the United ... Read more

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  • My Name is Marcus Garvey

    A Bite-size Introduction to Marcus Garvey's Life

    by Everol Wilson ...
    A bite-size introduction to the life of Marcus Garvey, structured in two parts:Part 1; chronicles the life of Marcus Garvey in a first person summary form.Part 2; gives a broader view, based on what we now know, as a result of documents which have been made public by the US and British governmentsDuring his lifetime Marcus Garvey was given a number of titles; political leader, publisher, ... Read more

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  • Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776

    by Natalie A. Zacek ...
    Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Pillaging the Empire

    Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

    by Kris E Lane ...
    Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays ... Read more

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  • The Dark

    by Sergio Chejfec ...
    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    New novel from BTBA finalist about a man obsessed with understanding the working-class via a love affair with a woman. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Undocumented Dominican Migration

    by Frank Graziano ...
    Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth treatment of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas

    by Alvin Thompson ...
    This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD