Download or read book Place Names in Haiti and the Dominican Republic written by United States. Department of the Interior. Division of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographic Names in Haiti and the Dominican Republic written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haiti and Dominican Republic written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Hispaniola written by Megan Jeanette Myers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti, occupying the western side of their shared island of Hispaniola, has become one of the poorest countries in the Americas. While some scholars have pointed to such disparities as definitive of the island’s literature, Megan Jeanette Myers challenges this reduction by considering how certain literary texts confront the dominant and, at times, exaggerated anti-Haitian Dominican ideology. Myers examines the antagonistic portrayal of the two nations—from the anti-Haitian rhetoric of the intellectual elites of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s rule to the writings of Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and others of the Haitian diaspora—endeavoring to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. Focusing on representations of the Haitian-Dominican dynamic that veer from the dominant history, Mapping Hispaniola disrupts the "magnification" and repetition of a Dominican anti-Haitian narrative.
Download or read book Dominican Republic Other Places Travel Guide written by Katherine Tuider and published by Other Places Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent a combined five years in the Dominican Republic as Peace Corps Volunteers, Katherine and Evan bring a wealth of knowledge to this travel guide for the Dominican Republic. Their relaxed authenticity and unique perspective inspire wanderlust in any reader. Whether you come to explore centuries-old colonial ruins, climb the highest peak in the Caribbean, find a surfer's paradise, or simply hang out with the locals, we provide all the insider information you need. With an emphasis on sustainable tourism while providing travelers with rich, multi-faceted insight, this book enables readers to travel like a local and experience the country like few outsiders can.
Download or read book The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names written by John Everett-Heath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 1619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every populated place, however small, has a name, and every name is chosen for a reason. This fascinating dictionary gives the history, meanings, and origin of an enormous range of country, region, island, city, and town names from across the world, as well as the name in the local language. It also includes key historical facts associated with many place names. Place-names are continually changing. New names are adopted for many different reasons such as invasion, revolution, and decolonization. This dictionary includes selected former names, and, where appropriate, some historical detail to explain the transition. The names of places often offer a real insight into the places themselves, revealing religious and cultural traditions, the migration of peoples, the ebb and flow of armies, the presence of explorers, local languages, industrial developments and topography. Superstition and legend can also play a part. All this fascinating detail is included in the Concise Dictionary of World Place Names. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary includes two appendices: a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names and their meanings, and a list of personalities and leaders from all over the world who have influenced the naming of places. Containing over 10,000 names, from Aachen to Zyrardów, this is a unique and fascinating guide for geographers, travellers, and all with an interest in current world affairs.
Download or read book Report of the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dominican Republic Haiti written by Scott Doggett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Dominican Republic and Haiti provides information on the best locales for surfing and diving; the most interesting and challenging hikes in the Central Highlands; where to see the orchids of Punte Rucia; coverage of national parks; and how to get around Hispaniola.
Download or read book Special Publication written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gazetteer United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Inventory written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Inventory of the Cartographic Records of the United States Marine Corps written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians written by Fray Ramon Pané and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous people—who came to be known as the Taíno—is now extinct, the written record completed by Pané around 1498 has survived. This volume makes Pané’s landmark Account—the first book written in a European language on American soil—available in an annotated English edition. Edited by the noted Hispanist José Juan Arrom, Pané’s report is the only surviving direct source of information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. The friar’s text contains many linguistic and cultural observations, including descriptions of the Taíno people’s healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death. Pané provides the first known description of the use of the hallucinogen cohoba, and he recounts the use of idols in ritual ceremonies. The names, functions, and attributes of native gods; the mythological origin of the aboriginal people’s attitudes toward sex and gender; and their rich stories of creation are described as well.
Download or read book Place Names of the English speaking World written by Constance Mary Matthews and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culicipedia written by Ralph E Harbach and published by CABI. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive compilation of all scientific names introduced at all taxonomic levels within the culicid family, offering insight into the history of mosquito classification as well as providing a bibliographic reference source. It is ideal for students, entomologists and taxonomists interested in culicid nomenclature and etymology.
Download or read book Haiti Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center and published by Washington, D.C. : The Board. This book was released on 1973 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Carib Wars written by Chris Taylor and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Carib Wars, author Christopher Taylor offers the fullest, most thoroughly researched history of the Garifuna people of St. Vincent, and their uneasy conflicts and alliances with Great Britain and France. The Garifuna--whose descendants were native Carib Indians, Arawaks and West African slaves brought to the Caribbean--were free citizens of St. Vincent. Beginning in the mid-1700s, they clashed with a number of colonial powers who claimed ownership of the island and its people. Upon the Garifuna's eventual defeat by the British in 1796, the people were dispersed to Central America. Today, roughly 600,000 descendants of the Garifuna live in Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, the United States, and Canada. The Garifuna--called "Black Caribs" by the British to distinguish them from other groups of unintegrated Caribs--speak a language and live a culture that directly descends from natives of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. Thus, the Garifuna heritage is one of the oldest and strongest links historians have to the region before European colonialism. The French, the first white people to live on St Vincent, attempted to subdue the Black Caribs but eventually developed an alliance with them. When the Treaty of Paris ostensibly handed St. Vincent to the British crown in 1763, the British clashed with the Black Caribs but, like the French, eventually formed another treaty. This cycle of attempted colonialism of St. Vincent by France and England alternately would continue for three decades. After repeated conflict and desperate measures by the European powers, the Garifuna were forced to surrender. In March 1797 the last survivors were loaded on to British ships and deported to the island of Roatán hundreds of miles away in the bay of Honduras. A little over 2,000 men, women and children were all that were left--perhaps a fifth of the Black Carib population of just two years earlier. It was a cataclysm. But the Black Caribs--the Garifuna in their own language--survived and their descendants number in the hundreds of thousands.
