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"From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic …
"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 el…
In this thorough social and political history Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of the history of the Dominican Republic and its relationship with Haiti by tracing the complicated history of its independence between 1822 and 1865, showing how the Dominican Republic's po…
An overview of the book -- Political participation, group consciousness, and the minority group model -- Politics in the new Boston: the majority-minority challenge to the Yankee-Irish political hegemony -- Chicago politics: Black participation and the need for a progressive coa…
Shows regional Black history.
Brings together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arags, and Latino and Latin American converts to present a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved in Latin America.
"This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunitie…
