Download or read book Jamaica Plantership written by Benjamin M'Mahon and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Warner Arundell written by Edward Lanzer Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the islands in the Caribbean, Trinidad has experienced the most varied ethnocultural and linguistic history. Its relatively brief period of plantation slavery and extent of racial mixing have generated a wide range of literary responses. Previous examinations of Trinidad's literary roots have largely dismissed works written prior to 1920. The first work in the series is Warner Arundell, the Adventures of a Creole, originally published in 1838. This was the first novel set at least partly in Trinidad and possibly the first Caribbean novel in English. This extremely well written novel provides a good read as it chronicles the adventures of Warner Arundell, a white Creole of British descent, born in Grenada and brought up in Antigua and Trinidad. After being defrauded by lawyers, he studies law in Venezuela and medicine in England, then goes to seek his fortune. After many adventures, he is reunited with the coloured branch of his family and his Venezuelan love. The originally published novel has been heavily annotated and the contextualized edition of the original text makes it useful to scholars. The book is of particular interest to students and faculty of Caribbean literature.

Download or read book El Libertador written by Simón Bolívar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted.

Download or read book Imperial Sites written by 罗哲文 and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书以英文版的形式,向读者全面介绍了皇家遗迹。

Download or read book Campa a de Invasi n del Teniente General don Pablo Morillo 1815 1816 written by Mayor Jorge Mercado and published by Ediciones LAVP. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La reconquista española de la Capitanía General de Venezuela y el virreinato de la Nueva Granada, comandada por el general español Pablo Morillo, fue uno de los más sangrientos episodios de la guerra de la independencia de Latinoamérica, pues hizo parte del llamado régimen del terror de la corona española sobre sus antiguas colonias en ultramar. Pablo Morillo era un brillante y experimentado general que combatió contra Napoleón Bonaparte en las guerras europeas. Morillo llegó a Venezuela, para iniciar la recuperación de los tambaleantes dominios españoles en el Nuevo Mundo, con la orden específica del rey Fernando VII de actuar con diplomacia y sentido humanitario, pero una sangrienta maniobra de engaño realizada por rebeldes tropas venezolanas comandadas por Juan Bautista Arismendi en Isla Margarita, desató la ira y la venganza de Pablo Morillo, quien arrasó literalmente la resistencia venezolana y se dirigió hacia la Nueva Granada a continuar la barbarie que caracterizó la breve reconquista de los territorios que desde 1810, se habían independizado del dominio de la Corona. El dantesco sitio a la ciudad amurallada de Cartagena en la Nueva Granada, dirigido por los españoles Pablo Morillo y Pascual Enrile es un episodio de la historia colombiana y universal que aún no ha sido tratado en su verdadera dimensión. Leer esta obra es hacer un recorrido por la historia de Colombia y en general de Latinoamerica, reconocer los valores etnográficos y el valor de una raza indómita que no se doblegó frente al drama de la violencia y la supresión de alimentos, impuesta por los sitiadores. Campaña de Invasión del Teniente General don Pablo Morillo (1815-1816) publicado en 1919 por el mayor Jorge Mercado del Ejército colombiano y reimpreso en 1963 por las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia, es un documento de alto valor histórico, referente para lectores del público en general, y un importante referente bibliográfico para los historiadores del futuro. Es una verdadera joya de la literatura histórica colombiana, que le editor recomienda a ojo cerrado a los lectores. Debido a la escasa literatura seria, documentada, investigativa y soportada, referente a esta dramática etapa de la historia de Colombia y Venezuela, hemos decidido reimprimir esta obra, que con absoluta certeza será de gran valor cultural, informativo y académico para quien desee conocer mas acerca de la formación política, social, económica y militar de Latinoamérica.