Refusal of the shadow: surrealism and the Caribbean
Onderzoek naar de invloed van gender op de positie van zwarte slavinnen ten tijde van de slavernij op de Caribische eilanden.
"Caribbean women - black, white and brown, free and enslaved, migrants and creoles, rich and poor - are assembled in this book and their lives examined as they battled both against male domination and among themselves for social advantage." "Professor Beckles uses the method of …
"Caribbean women - black, white and brown, free and enslaved, migrants and creoles, rich and poor - are assembled in this book and their lives examined as they battled both against male domination and among themselves for social advantage." "Professor Beckles uses the method of …
"The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in M…
"A fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The Conquest of America has become a classic in its field. It offers an original interpretation of the discovery of America by Columbus and of the subsequent …
This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump in this context. Focusing on The Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinida…
Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonie Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, …
Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the res…
