History : Caribbean & West Indies

Prologue: A Premature Death. Chapter One: Bury the Dead and Take Care of the Living. Chapter Two: Almost an Englishman. Chapter Three: In the Company of Negroes. Chapter Four: An Ebony Orator in Harlem. Chapter Five: No Flag but the Stars and Stripes - and possibly the Union Jack. Chapter Six: If We Must Die. Chapter Seven: How to Manufacture a Traitor. Chapter Eight: Harlem Speaks for Scattered Ethiopia. Chapter Nine: Flyin' Home on the Black Star Line. Chapter Ten: A Star in the Storm. Chapter Eleven: He Who Plays the King. Chapter Twelve: Last Stop Liberia. Chapter Thirteen: Not to Mention his Colour. Chapter Fourteen: Behold the Demagogue or Misunderstood Messiah. Chapter Fifteen: Caging the Tiger. Chapter Sixteen: Into the Furnace. Chapter Seventeen: Silence Mr. Garvey. Chapter Eighteen: Gone to Foreign. Epilogue more...

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Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape—timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species—affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies and will be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments. Lee A. Newsom is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. more...

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This book investigates the events and key figures surrounding the exodus, including the roles of the Catholic Church and the State Department, and the extent of the CIA's involvement. more...

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This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore and mythology of the entire Caribbean region. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, it explores archaeological sites, like Caguana in Puerto Rico and plantation sites, like Jamaica's Drax hall. more...

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The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. more...

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