Download or read book Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles written by Charles Locks and published by Mighty Media Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a distant hurricane approaches, a depressed Captain Brian Clancy asks, "Where do you go when you leave paradise?" Several close friends have recently died and now someone's murdered another, Leif the Thief. The virginal but alluring Billie nudges Clancy to look into the murder because the police have already concluded their investigation, which consisted of stopping people on the street and asking them if they did it. Reluctantly, Captain Brain becomes our erudite and sartorial sea-salt sleuth.

Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles written by Casey D. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or island set’s) geomorphology and geology, and how the settlement history, tourism, and hazards have affected their individual landscapes. Written by regional experts and replete with up-to-date information, stunning color imagery, and beautiful cartography (maps), it is the only comprehensive, scientific evaluation of the Lesser Antilles, and serves as the region’s definitive reference resource. Accessible to non-experts and amateur explorers, the book includes in-depth discussions and reference sections for each island/island set. Usable as both a textbook and guidebook, it offers readers a straightforward yet detailed assessment of an interesting and intriguing – but often-overlooked and under-appreciated – locale.

Download or read book Languages of the Pre Columbian Antilles written by Julian Granberry and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492 This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered locales for more than 500 years but which has never before been correlated and critically examined. Within any well-defined geographical area (such as these islands), the linguistic expectation and norm is that people speaking the same or closely related language will intermarry, and, by participating in a common gene pool, will show similar socioeconomic and cultural traits, as well as common artifact preferences. From an archaeological perspective, the converse is deducible: artifact inventories of a well-defined sociogeographical area are likely to have been created by speakers of the same or closely related language or languages. Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles presents information based on these assumptions. The data is scant—scattered words and phrases in Spanish explorers' journals, local place names written on maps or in missionary records—but the collaboration of the authors, one a linguist and the other an archaeologist, has tied the linguistics to the ground wherever possible and allowed the construction of a framework with which to understand the relationships, movements, and settlement patterns of Caribbean peoples before Columbus arrived.

Download or read book The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion written by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Robert L Paquette and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outgrowth of papers presented at conference marking Columbus' quincentennial and centering around new societies formed as a result of culture contact. Essays focus on precolumbian peoples of the Lesser Antilles and their earliest encounters with Europeans; imperial rivalries and wars and their impact on settlement patterns; and local societies, slavery, trade, and abolition. Highly useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Download or read book The Tower of the Antilles written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist: A “superb story collection” about America and Cuba, escape and return, and history and hope (Los Angeles Times). Longlisted for The Story Prize One of Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of the Year In “Superman,” several possible story lines emerge about a 1950s Havana sex-show superstar who disappeared as soon as the revolution triumphed. “North/South” portrays a migrant family trying to cope with separation and the eventual disintegration of blood ties. “The Cola of Oblivion” follows a young woman who returns to Cuba and inadvertently uncorks a history of accommodation and betrayal among the family members who stayed behind during the revolution. And in the title story, an interrogation reveals a series of fantasies about escape and a history of futility. The Cubans in Achy Obejas’ story collection are haunted by islands: the island they fled, the island they’ve created, the island they were taken to or forced from, the island they long for, the island they return to, and the island that can never be home again. “[A] memorable short fiction collection.” —Publishers Weekly “By turns searing and subtly magical . . . Obejas’ plots are ambushing, her characters startling, her metaphors fresh, her humor caustic, and her compassion potent in these intricate and haunting stories of displacement, loss, stoicism, and realization.” —Booklist “Obejas writes with gentleness, without flashy wording or gimmicks, about people trying to figure out where they belong.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Download or read book The Pearl of the Antilles written by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margarita, an exile in the United States, is struggling to come to terms with her divided identity, a past she has suppressed, and her failure to share her heritage with her children.

Download or read book A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam written by Cornelis C. Goslinga and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To English-speaking historians, the author of this book, a Dutchman who for many years now finds his base at the University of Florida, became well known when his The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast, 158~I680 was published in 1972. At that time Professor Goslinga, who prior to his academic career in the United States, lived for an extended period in Cura~ao, Netherlands Antilles, had already acquired a solid reputation among Dutch Caribbeanists by his manifold publications on social, political and maritime aspects of Dutch West Indian history. By his training, interests and present position, Dr. Goslinga would seem to me to be singularly well-equipped to write a comprehensive history - geared to an English-speaking university public - of what was once known as the Netherlands West Indies. The present book is the product of this professional equipment and of his long teaching experience. It should go a long way in filling the old and wide gap in historical information on this part of the former Dutch empire, and I hope an equally wide but younger audience will appreciate it.

Download or read book Women and Slavery in the French Antilles 1635 1848 written by Bernard Moitt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848 Bernard Moitt Examines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848. Moitt examines the lives of black women in bondage, evaluates the impact that the slave experience had on them, and assesses the ways in which women reacted to and coped with slavery in the French Caribbean for over two centuries. As males outnumbered females for most of the slavery period and monopolized virtually all of the specialized tasks, the disregard for gender in task allocation meant that females did proportionately more hard labor than did males. In addition to hard work in the fields, women were engaged in gender-specific labor and performed a host of other tasks. Women resisted slavery in the same ways that men did, as well as in ways that gender and allocation of tasks made possible. Moitt casts slave women in dynamic roles previously ignored by historians, thus bringing them out of the shadows of the plantation world into full view, where they belong. Bernard Moitt is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born), Canada, and the United States, he has written on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery. Blacks in the Diaspora—Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., David Barry Gaspar, general editors June 2001 256 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append. cloth0-253-33913-8$44.95 L / £34.00 paper0-253-21452-1$19.95 s / 15.50

Download or read book West Indian Antique Furniture of the Lesser Antilles 1740 1940 written by Philip Sturm and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers insight into the little-known furniture of the Lesser Antilles and includes over 200 illustrated examples of island furniture, with detailed captions. A comprehensive study of this hiterto neglected subject.

Download or read book Tax Evasion Through the Netherlands Antilles and Other Tax Haven Countries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlands Antilles written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper provides a brief review of economic developments and policies in the Netherlands Antilles. The government’s current adjustment initiative provides a much needed opportunity for restoring growth prospects for the Netherlands Antilles. The paper has looked into issues pertaining to the development and prospects of the Antillean offshore sector. The picture emerging is one of a sector that, after initial spectacular growth, has encountered a number of obstacles. Nevertheless, it has been able to continue to register positive, albeit more moderate, growth.

Download or read book Netherlands Antilles written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Birds of the Lesser Antilles written by Ryan Chenery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portable yet authoritative guide to more than 300 of the most commonly seen birds of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles – incorporating the nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, along with numerous dependencies – are rich in birdlife. It is a magical region for a naturalist to explore, with endemic parrots, orioles, thrushes, warblers and more. The perfect companion for any wildlife-savvy visitor to the islands, Birds of the Lesser Antilles includes superb photography of more than 200 commonly encountered species across the islands, including all endemics and many subspecies. Concise text for each species includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat, with each photo having been carefully selected to guide identification. This is the ideal guide for birdwatchers visiting these spectacular and bird-rich islands.

Download or read book Antilles Netherlands Gaming Industry Investment and Business Guide written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antilles (Netherlands) Gaming Industry Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information

Download or read book Antilles Netherlands Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Important Regulations written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Antilles Netherlands Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antilles (Netherlands) Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information