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Subject: Caribbean Surveys
1959: The Year That Inflamed the Caribbean
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Diederich, Bernard
Subject: Latin America, Caribbean
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Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed a historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro’s guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator …
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Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica
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Zips, Werner (preface by Franklin Knight; translated by Shelley Frisch)
Subject: Africa, Caribbean
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This book chronicles the struggles of African-Americans who escaped from slavery and developed autonomous, “maroon” societies beyond the fringes of the colonial system, demonstrating the vulnerability of colonial rule and the vitality of black resistance in the Caribbean.
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Caribbean: Sea of the New World
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Arciniegas, Germán
Subject: Caribbean
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This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, “Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book…the student of …
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Cuban Music
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Roy, Maya (translated by Denise and Gabriel Asfar)
Subject: Caribbean
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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 …
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Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
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Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga
Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History
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From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear …
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Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America
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Diederich, Bernard
Subject: Caribbean, Latin America, Us History
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This engaging story of Nicaragua’s notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua’s political structure, social circumstance, and economic …
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Space and History in the Caribbean
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Lara, Oruno D.
Subject: Caribbean
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Oruno D. Lara explains the history of the Caribbean as a history of exploitation.
From Christopher Columbus to the modern vacationer, outside observers have looked upon the Caribbean as a paradise on earth. However, behind the images of sea, …
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The African Experience in Spanish America
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Rout, Leslie, Jr.
Subject: Africa, Latin America, History of Slavery
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This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of …
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