Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613514415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Children run, splash, and sing on an island in the West Indies in this lyrical celebration of the Caribbean

Author: Joan Tapper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500512364
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A visual celebration of the landscapes and blue waters of the Caribbean Sea includes photography of the cities, beaches, and interiors of such islands as Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique, reflecting the author's and photographer's efforts to capture the region's relaxed lifestyle. 12,000 first printing.

Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439168441
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A lyrical and evocative dreamscape of the Caribbean.

Author: Robert Friedman
Publisher: British Amer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780945167211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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On a large Caribbean island, militant political activists seeking freedom from their status as a U.S. protectorate plot to focus attention to their cause by stealing a vintage 1940 Packard once owned by Franklin Roosevelt

Author: Michael Wissing
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405098731
Category : British Virgin Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Author: Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197880654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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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.

Author: Dr. Sharon R. Burow
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480839345
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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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.

Author: Robert E. May
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813025124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"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.

Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606246859
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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A lyrical and evocative dreamscape of the Caribbean.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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