Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613514415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children run, splash, and sing on an island in the West Indies in this lyrical celebration of the Caribbean
Caribbean Dream
Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613514415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children run, splash, and sing on an island in the West Indies in this lyrical celebration of the Caribbean
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613514415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children run, splash, and sing on an island in the West Indies in this lyrical celebration of the Caribbean
My Caribbean Dream
Author: Dr. Sharon R. Burow
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480839345
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Take a trip through exotic lands including rainforest canopies, fragile coral reefs, busy harbors, island homes and streets, cascading waterfalls, and moonlit beaches. View natures many gifts of life and beauty as seen through the eyes of a child. Be inspired to treasure and protect our worlds fragile biodiversity as you enjoy your very own Caribbean Dream.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480839345
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Take a trip through exotic lands including rainforest canopies, fragile coral reefs, busy harbors, island homes and streets, cascading waterfalls, and moonlit beaches. View natures many gifts of life and beauty as seen through the eyes of a child. Be inspired to treasure and protect our worlds fragile biodiversity as you enjoy your very own Caribbean Dream.
Caribbean Dreams
Author: Michael Wissing
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405098731
Category : British Virgin Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Virgin Gorda is the second largest of the British Virgin Islands and one of the most beautiful and most unspoiled islands in the whole of the Caribbean. This book avoids the Caribbean cliches and portrays the essence of the island, to allow the pictures to tell their own story about this extraordinary paradise.
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405098731
Category : British Virgin Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Virgin Gorda is the second largest of the British Virgin Islands and one of the most beautiful and most unspoiled islands in the whole of the Caribbean. This book avoids the Caribbean cliches and portrays the essence of the island, to allow the pictures to tell their own story about this extraordinary paradise.
We Dream Together
Author: Anne Eller
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was anchored in a rich and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a common commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, often well beyond the reach of the state. By showing how the island's political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history within the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for understanding independence and emancipation throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was anchored in a rich and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a common commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, often well beyond the reach of the state. By showing how the island's political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history within the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for understanding independence and emancipation throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Author: Robert E. May
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813025124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"The great value of the book lies in the manner in which May relates the expansionist urge to the "symbolic" differences emerging between the North and the South. The result is a balanced account that contributes to the efforts of historians to understand the causes of the Civil War."--Journal of American History "The most ambitious effort yet to relate the Caribbean question to the larger picture of southern economic and political anxieties, and to secession. The core of this superbly documented book is a detailed description of expansionist ideology and activities during the 1850s."--Civil War History A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics--Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular--before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more success than when they tried to extend slavery westward. As one after another of their plots failed, southern imperialists lost hope that their labor system might survive in the Union. Blaming northern Democrats and antislavery Republicans alike for their disappointed dreams, alienated southerners embraced secession as an alternative means to achieving the tropical slave empire that they craved. Had war not erupted at Fort Sumter, Confederates might have attempted to conquer the Caribbean basin. May's book serves as an important reminder that foreign policy cannot be divorced from the writing of American history, even in regard to seemingly domestic matters like the causes of the Civil War. Contending that America's Manifest Destiny became "sectionalized" in the 1850s, he explains why southerners considered Caribbean expansion so important and shows how southerners used their clout in Washington to initiate diplomatic schemes like the notorious Ostend Manifesto and presidential attempts to buy the slaveholding island of Cuba from Spain. He also describes southern filibustering plots against Latin American domains, such as the aborted designs on Mexico of the colorful Knights of the Golden Circle and the actual invasions of Central America by native Tennessean William Walker. Walker struck a major blow for the expansion of slavery when he legalized it during his occupation of Nicaragua. Most important, May relates how Caribbean plots affected American public opinion and ignited sectional friction in congressional debates. May argues that President-elect Abraham Lincoln might have saved the Union in the winter of 1860-61, had he agreed to last minute concessions facilitating slavery's future expansion towards the tropics. May's fascinating and often surprising account internationalized the causes of the Civil War. It should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the complex reasons why Americans came to blows with each other in 1861. This reprinting features a new preface by the author, which addresses the latest research on the Caribbean question. Robert E. May is professor of history at Purdue University.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813025124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"The great value of the book lies in the manner in which May relates the expansionist urge to the "symbolic" differences emerging between the North and the South. The result is a balanced account that contributes to the efforts of historians to understand the causes of the Civil War."--Journal of American History "The most ambitious effort yet to relate the Caribbean question to the larger picture of southern economic and political anxieties, and to secession. The core of this superbly documented book is a detailed description of expansionist ideology and activities during the 1850s."--Civil War History A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics--Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular--before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more success than when they tried to extend slavery westward. As one after another of their plots failed, southern imperialists lost hope that their labor system might survive in the Union. Blaming northern Democrats and antislavery Republicans alike for their disappointed dreams, alienated southerners embraced secession as an alternative means to achieving the tropical slave empire that they craved. Had war not erupted at Fort Sumter, Confederates might have attempted to conquer the Caribbean basin. May's book serves as an important reminder that foreign policy cannot be divorced from the writing of American history, even in regard to seemingly domestic matters like the causes of the Civil War. Contending that America's Manifest Destiny became "sectionalized" in the 1850s, he explains why southerners considered Caribbean expansion so important and shows how southerners used their clout in Washington to initiate diplomatic schemes like the notorious Ostend Manifesto and presidential attempts to buy the slaveholding island of Cuba from Spain. He also describes southern filibustering plots against Latin American domains, such as the aborted designs on Mexico of the colorful Knights of the Golden Circle and the actual invasions of Central America by native Tennessean William Walker. Walker struck a major blow for the expansion of slavery when he legalized it during his occupation of Nicaragua. Most important, May relates how Caribbean plots affected American public opinion and ignited sectional friction in congressional debates. May argues that President-elect Abraham Lincoln might have saved the Union in the winter of 1860-61, had he agreed to last minute concessions facilitating slavery's future expansion towards the tropics. May's fascinating and often surprising account internationalized the causes of the Civil War. It should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the complex reasons why Americans came to blows with each other in 1861. This reprinting features a new preface by the author, which addresses the latest research on the Caribbean question. Robert E. May is professor of history at Purdue University.
Dreams of Archives Unfolded
Author: Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197880654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197880654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.
Where the Dream Ends
Author: José Alcántara Almánzar
Publisher: Caribbean Studies Press
ISBN: 9781626328396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
¿The short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar are an ideal point of entry into the thematic and stylistic wealth contemporary Dominican literature offers. `Moving, urgent, piercing¿ is how critic Orlando Alcántara Fernández characterizes Alcántara Almánzar¿s mastery of his craft, `his mark of identity as a writer from beginning to end.¿. . . . Formally experimental and thematically innovative, the short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar showcase his willingness to deploy a range of techniques drawn from both his deep understanding of the psychology and social constraints of his characters and his command of the traditions of his chosen genre. From Edgar Allan Poe to Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar¿to whom Alcántara Almánzar acknowledges a profound debt¿his fiction is steeped in the history of the short story while pushing its technical and thematic boundaries into new directions.¿ ¿From the Introduction by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Publisher: Caribbean Studies Press
ISBN: 9781626328396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
¿The short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar are an ideal point of entry into the thematic and stylistic wealth contemporary Dominican literature offers. `Moving, urgent, piercing¿ is how critic Orlando Alcántara Fernández characterizes Alcántara Almánzar¿s mastery of his craft, `his mark of identity as a writer from beginning to end.¿. . . . Formally experimental and thematically innovative, the short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar showcase his willingness to deploy a range of techniques drawn from both his deep understanding of the psychology and social constraints of his characters and his command of the traditions of his chosen genre. From Edgar Allan Poe to Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar¿to whom Alcántara Almánzar acknowledges a profound debt¿his fiction is steeped in the history of the short story while pushing its technical and thematic boundaries into new directions.¿ ¿From the Introduction by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
The Coconut Chronicles
Author: Patrick Youngblood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532754210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
When Patrick and Michael buy a rambling, dilapidated house on Vieques Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, they can hardly believe their luck-or how much work lies ahead of them. Renovating their little corner of paradise proves to be a crash course in how Vieques works-and how it doesn't. Few projects go according to plan and many veer alarmingly off course. Along the way they learn a number of unforgettable lessons: concrete houses can have termites; five-foot iguanas aren't necessarily more afraid of you than you are of them; emergency rooms don't always stock medical supplies; and a property manager who paints your house orange instead of yellow may resign in a huff when you point out his little boo-boo. The Coconut Chronicles is a lighthearted account of Patrick's and Michael's battle to create order out of chaos in the not-always relaxing tropics.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532754210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
When Patrick and Michael buy a rambling, dilapidated house on Vieques Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, they can hardly believe their luck-or how much work lies ahead of them. Renovating their little corner of paradise proves to be a crash course in how Vieques works-and how it doesn't. Few projects go according to plan and many veer alarmingly off course. Along the way they learn a number of unforgettable lessons: concrete houses can have termites; five-foot iguanas aren't necessarily more afraid of you than you are of them; emergency rooms don't always stock medical supplies; and a property manager who paints your house orange instead of yellow may resign in a huff when you point out his little boo-boo. The Coconut Chronicles is a lighthearted account of Patrick's and Michael's battle to create order out of chaos in the not-always relaxing tropics.
Island Escape
Author: Jade Gedeon
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 9781624142437
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Color Yourself a Tropical Vacation Embark on a coloring adventure and escape to a world of tropical island drawings to clear your mind from the stresses of modern life. Inspired by her native Trinidad and Tobago, Jade Gedeon takes you on a special and personal journey to her favorite places. Pack your bags by coloring suitcases, bathing suits, flip-fops and sun hats—don’t forget your passport! Then feel yourself arrive at a luxurious, tranquil paradise. Let your inner child explore hidden beaches with vast ocean views; unwind as your imagination rocks in a hammock under soaring palm trees; and create your ideal sunset with any colors you like. The patterns will soothe away your worries and give your mind a vacation from the real world. Use colored pencils, pens, markers and even paints on the thick, high-quality premium art paper. The lay flat binding stays open so you can color with ease. Tear out the finished designs from the perforated pages and display your personalized artwork to relive your coloring journey. With a wide range of full-page illustrations plus 10 bonus foldout poster images, you can create an immersive vacation experience on every page. See what beauty and adventure await inside Island Escape.
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 9781624142437
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Color Yourself a Tropical Vacation Embark on a coloring adventure and escape to a world of tropical island drawings to clear your mind from the stresses of modern life. Inspired by her native Trinidad and Tobago, Jade Gedeon takes you on a special and personal journey to her favorite places. Pack your bags by coloring suitcases, bathing suits, flip-fops and sun hats—don’t forget your passport! Then feel yourself arrive at a luxurious, tranquil paradise. Let your inner child explore hidden beaches with vast ocean views; unwind as your imagination rocks in a hammock under soaring palm trees; and create your ideal sunset with any colors you like. The patterns will soothe away your worries and give your mind a vacation from the real world. Use colored pencils, pens, markers and even paints on the thick, high-quality premium art paper. The lay flat binding stays open so you can color with ease. Tear out the finished designs from the perforated pages and display your personalized artwork to relive your coloring journey. With a wide range of full-page illustrations plus 10 bonus foldout poster images, you can create an immersive vacation experience on every page. See what beauty and adventure await inside Island Escape.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company
Author: Sir Thomas Faye
Publisher: Disney Press
ISBN: 9781423104995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The East India Trading Company has been working to rid the Seven Seas of all pirates, but the cunning pirates are hard to catch. If the East India Trading Company is ever to gain control, they will need all the help they can get. Luckily for them, this compiliation pulls together all the stories of the notorious, pesky Pirates of the Caribbean. Featuring legends and facts known about the key characters, their ships, and the places they travel, it's a who's-who for new and old fans alike.
Publisher: Disney Press
ISBN: 9781423104995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The East India Trading Company has been working to rid the Seven Seas of all pirates, but the cunning pirates are hard to catch. If the East India Trading Company is ever to gain control, they will need all the help they can get. Luckily for them, this compiliation pulls together all the stories of the notorious, pesky Pirates of the Caribbean. Featuring legends and facts known about the key characters, their ships, and the places they travel, it's a who's-who for new and old fans alike.