History : Caribbean & West Indies

In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. more...

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Undoing Empire brings to light the story of what José F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje—the ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval Iberian societies to the beginning of direct U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century. more...

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The United States and the Caribbean provides the first comprehensive assessment of post-Cold War US-Caribbean relations. more...

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Gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. Moitt advances this argument by detailing and analyzing the social condition of enslaved black women in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Dominique (Haiti), and French Guiana. He examines the lives of black women in bondage, evaluates the impact that the slave experience had on them, and assesses the ways in which women reacted to and coped with slavery in the French Caribbean for over two centuries. more...

Price: $15.95