6,621円 The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creoleーa slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orlean...

1,322円 A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL. The Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa died at 8:00 am on July 5, 1965, when he smashed his Ferrari into a tr...

2,022円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two menー...

3,443円 The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945). As ...

1,326円 This is an interdisciplinary and international study which examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales.

4,400円 Unearthing the demographic past of the Caribbean to illuminate its cultural origins and transformations. According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its incept...

5,060円 The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on th...

11,772円 Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...

10,280円 An often overshadowed event in American military history, the Spanish-American War began as a humanitarian effort on the part of the United States to provide military assistance for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish domination. At the time, no one knew that this simple premise would result in a...

602円 Por varias generaciones hemos sido educados en falsedades históricas, ya que siempre fue verdad aquella frase de Orwell que decía: “quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro”. Dichas falsificaciones, como la gota que horada la piedra, han ido poco a poco planteando interrogantes más allá del e...

330円 Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate. This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes.

330円 This fascinating classic text provides a historical account of piracy in the Americas.