400円 *Weaves the lives and piracy of the two famous pirates into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Explains how the myths and legends of the pirates helped create the instantly recognizable pirate stereotypes today. *Includes pictures depicting the pirates and important people, places, and e...

496円 This is a seventeenth century translation of a "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias", an impassioned tirade against Spanish behavior across South America and the Caribbean, recording a litany of horrors committed against the indigenous people there. In the process, De Las Casas als...

3,973円 Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudging...

4,091円 Before Fidel Castro seized power, Cuba was an ebullient and chaotic society in a permanent state of turmoil, combining a raucous tropical nature with the evils of arbitrary and corrupt government. Yet this fascinating period in Cuban history has been largely forgotten or misrepresented, even thou...

922円 While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship betwee...

1,657円 As strange as this may sound , I hope you do not enjoy this book, I hope it disturbs you. I hope after reading you realize there is something wrong with Jamaica that needs to be fixed......I hope you will never look at a ghetto person the same again. I hope you will never see a young girl in a co...

5,305円 This book provides an exemplary model of the cliometric method, and might very well be the best single study ever done on any slave system anywhere.

520円 In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered  a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded with treasure that belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. They w...

5,300円 Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two ...

612円 This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS I. Starting for the Field II. Under the Red Cross III. On the Edge of War IV. War Correspondents and Despatch-Boats V. Off for Santiago VI. The Cuban Coast VII. The Fight at Guantanamo VIII. The Landing and Advance o...

500円 The Bermuda Triangle. The Devil's Triangle. Call it what you will but this area off the coast of the southwestern United States has stirred peoples' imaginations for hundreds of years. You won't find it on any official maps, which hasn't actually stopped would-be cartographers from adding it in a...

400円 *Includes historic illustrations depicting Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives.*Includes a profile of Anne and Mary from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discusses common legends about Anne and Mary, separating fact from fiction.*Include...