Book Description
Surveys the geography, history, people, culture, and industries of Central America and the islands of the Caribbean.
Author : John P. Augelli
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9780882961118
Surveys the geography, history, people, culture, and industries of Central America and the islands of the Caribbean.
Author : John Macpherson
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Describes the land, climate, resources, economy, and people of the various countries in the Caribbean area.
Author : Frank George Carpenter
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : [s.n.]
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Canal Zone
ISBN :
Author : Eintou Pearl Springer
Publisher :
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9788459922302
Author : Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0385349777
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.
Author : John Macpherson
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780582765658
Describes the land, climate, resources, economy, and people of the various countries in the Caribbean area.
Author : Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 0197555454
The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Investments, American
ISBN :
Author : David Leslie Clawson
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Carlyle Glean
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1988-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780435981938