Caribbean — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Caribbean

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Cuban Music
	Roy, Maya (translated by Denise and Gabriel Asfar) Subject: Caribbean	Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling … More Information

Cuentos: Stories from Puerto Rico (Bilingual)
	Wagenheim, Kal, editor Subject: Caribbean	*Cuentos* is a bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine The San Juan Review, co-founded by Kal Wagenheim and Augusto Font. Written by six of Puerto Rico’s leading writers, the … More Information

Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society
	Vega, Bernardo (translated by Christine Ayorinde) Subject: Caribbean	The Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of Dominican culture. What is not as widely recognized is that a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Jews from the Dutch … More Information

Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean
	Craton, Michael Subject: Africa, Caribbean	The author describes and explains the origins of West Indian slave plantations, plantocracies, and the relationship between plantocrats and Amerindians. He then examines the African background of Caribbean slavery, depicts slave lives and behavior, and discusses modern perceptions of slavery … More Information

Frontiers, Plantations & Walled Cities: Society, Culture & Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800–1945
	Martínez-Fernández, Luis Subject: Caribbean	For decades, the Hispanic Caribbean has eluded attempts by historians striving to view and analyze Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as a region rather than as isolated insular units. Focusing on similarities instead of differences and applying comparative … More Information

Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans: Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World
	Schorsch, Jonathan Subject: Caribbean, Jewish Studies, Afro-Latino, Religion	“A real tour de force” –Reviews in History “Schorsch introduces a cast of characters in a series of one-act plays, short stories, and extended mediations that describe particular engagements with what it meant to live between identities.” –Journal of … More Information

Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the United States
	Rodriguez, Clara E. and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, editors Subject: Caribbean, U.S. History	This collection was originally developed as an interdisciplinary reader for Puerto Rican Studies courses under the title The Puerto Rican Struggle: Essays on Survival in the U.S. It is being reissued with updated commentary because of its continuing relevance to … More Information

History and Histories in the Caribbean
	Bremer, Thomas and Ulrich Fleischmann, editors Subject: Caribbean	A collection of interdisciplinary essays highlighting the historiographical skepticism that characterizes postmodernist approaches and addressing particular problems related to colonial history and its source material. The topics covered are Colonial History and its traps, Oral History and Hidden Discourses, and … More Information

History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	Updated and Expanded *Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, CHOICE* Magazine** One of Puerto Rico’s leading historians, Fernando Picó has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in … More Information

History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World
	Moya Pons, Frank Subject: Caribbean	“Frank Moya Pons, the authority on the history of the Dominican Republic, has written a classic.” — New West Indian Guide “A clearly written and comprehensive narrative.” — HAHR: Hispanic American Historical Review “A very good read. Historically sound, … More Information