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Book Pre Colonial and Post Contact Archaeology in Barbados

Download or read book Pre Colonial and Post Contact Archaeology in Barbados written by Maaike S. De Waal and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected papers on all aspects of Barbados' history, heritage, and archaeology, this volume will have considerable impact upon the wider context of Caribbeanist archaeology, history and heritage studies.

Book The Barbados Carolina Connection

Download or read book The Barbados Carolina Connection written by Warren Alleyne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and possible architectural links between the island of Barbados and South Carolina.

Book A History of Barbados

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilary McD. Beckles
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1990-09-20
  • ISBN : 9780521358798
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book A History of Barbados written by Hilary McD. Beckles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Barbados celebrates 350 years of established parliamentary government, this concise and authoritative history makes a timely appearance, covering the period from the first human settlement by the Amerindians to the present day. Social, political, and economic themes run throughout the book, including detailed aspects of early English colonization, the emergence and eventual abolition of the slave trade, and the development and growth of the sugar industry. Professor Beckles emphasizes the struggles for social equality, civil rights, and material betterment, detailing their continuous flow through the island's history since 1627.

Book The Natural History of Barbados

Download or read book The Natural History of Barbados written by Griffith Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Hell or Barbados

Download or read book To Hell or Barbados written by Sean O'Callaghan and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.

Book Emergence and Evolution of Barbados

Download or read book Emergence and Evolution of Barbados written by Robert C. Speed and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter 1 shows that the windward slope of Barbados and its terraced morphology evolved principally by wave erosion during uplift and eustatic oscillation, rather than by biohermal growth. Chapter 2 describes the interplay of erosion and limestone deposition during eustatic oscillation over a span of 700,000 years. It represents the first comprehensive field and chronologic study to integrate marine erosion and deposition with tectonic uplift rates to determine emergence values and rates of the stratigraphic and evolutionary model. Chapter 3 describes the distributions, lithology, depositional environments, and ages of the limestone stratigraphic subunits for seven study areas in southeastern Barbados"--

Book Rihanna

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilary Beckles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789766405021
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rihanna written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna's ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties as they do about the artist herself. The boundary-transgressing, cultural icon Rihanna is subject to anxieties about her body language and latitude from her global audiences as well; however, the essays in this collection purposely seek to de-centre the dominance of the Euro-American gaze, focusing instead on considerations of the Caribbean artist and her oeuvre from a Caribbean postcolonial corpus of academic inquiry. This collection brings together US- and Caribbean-based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture and economy. Using the concept of diasporic citizenship as a theoretical frame, the authors intervene in current questions of national and transnational circuits of exchange as they pertain to the commoditization and movement of culture, knowledge, values and identity. The contributors approach the subjects of Rihanna, globalization, gender and sexuality, commerce, transnationalism, Caribbean regionalism, and Barbadian national identity and development from different disciplinary and at times radically divergent perspectives. At the same time, they collectively work through the limitations, possibilities and promise of our best Caribbean imaginings.

Book That Birthday in Barbados

Download or read book That Birthday in Barbados written by Inglath Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about turning forty that makes a woman take a look at where she's been and where she's going? For Flex Wear CEO Catherine Camilleri, it is a crossroads that has her wondering where she went off course. Divorced without children, life isn't what she had pictured for herself twenty years ago. Not up to admitting any of this in front of friends and family, she bails on the surprise party being thrown for her and books a last-minute trip to Barbados for a stay at the luxurious Sandy Lane Hotel, the same place where she'd spent her honeymoon ten years before. Is she going back to mourn the marriage she'd thought would last forever? Or in an attempt to chase out of her heart for good a betrayal that forever changed her? Anders Walker might be just the ticket for that. After a brief career on Wall Street and a life experience that turned his world upside down, Anders took off the golden handcuffs and walked away for good. When he spots Catherine checking in on arrival at the Sandy Lane Hotel, he challenges her to try his spin class at the hotel's spa. He sees a woman who no longer considers herself someone a guy like him would be attracted to. Except that she's wrong. In Catherine, he recognizes a woman who defines herself by rejection. He sees, too, that she has made work her life. But he's learned that there is so much more to living. Simple things like swimming with sea turtles. And watching the sun sink on a Caribbean horizon. He's got two weeks to prove it to her, to make sure she will always remember that birthday in Barbados.

Book Englishmen Transplanted

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Dale Gragg
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780199253890
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Englishmen Transplanted written by Larry Dale Gragg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches inthe cultivation of sugar. Yet, they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplanted many familiar governmental and legal institutions, eagerly started families, abided traditional views about the social order, and resistedcompromises in their diet, apparel, and housing, despite their tropical setting. Seldom becoming absentee planters, these Englishmen developed an extraordinary attraction to Barbados, where they saw themselves, as one group of planters explained in a petition, as 'being Englishmentransplanted'.

Book George Washington s Barbados Diary  1751 52

Download or read book George Washington s Barbados Diary 1751 52 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition has been prepared by the staff of The Washington Papers, sponsored by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the University of Virginia."

Book True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes

Download or read book True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes written by Richard Ligon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1673 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size and complexity of the estates acquired in Barbados by subtle and greedy' planters, even in the early days of the industry.

Book Sweet Negotiations

Download or read book Sweet Negotiations written by Russell R. Menard and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Menard argues that the emergence of black slavery in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar. He shows that Barbados was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and a slave society before sugar emerged as the dominant crop. He sheds light on the origins of the integrated plantation, gang labour, and slave economy.

Book The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados

Download or read book The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados written by Curwen Best and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. Readers will find especially compelling Best's analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil' Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression. This book will be of significant interest to scholars, students and all those curious about Caribbean popular culture, the popular music of Barbados, and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural development in a small island state.

Book Absolutely Barbados

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian Armfield
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789769574113
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Absolutely Barbados written by Julian Armfield and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and BBC broadcaster Julian Armfield explores and embraces the different aspects of Barbadian culture, lifestyle and heritage in this book about Barbados. He shares his vivid experiences on these areas of Barbadian life. He expounds on the different Barbadian terms and talks about the food, resturants and the beaches.

Book Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados

Download or read book Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados written by Keith A. P. Sandiford and published by Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an intriguing and important analysis of the role played by three prestigious grammar schools - Combermere School, Harrison College and the Loge School- in establishing the cricket cult in Barbados and ultimately throughout the Caribbean. It goes far towards explaining why Barbadians have traditionally played such excellent cricket. This book is the first to make such extensive use of Barbadian school magazines as primary sources for the study of social history. The author stresses the statistical first class records of about 200 alumni of the three schools and in so doing furnishes sport sociologists with a considerable new body of empirical data for future use. Although it focuses on a Barbadian situation, the book should interest cricket enthusiasts everywhere with its many photographs and its lucid and candid treatment of some of the most important personalities in regional and world cricket, a few of whom are still actively involved in the sport today.

Book A Barbados Book of Poems and Puzzles

Download or read book A Barbados Book of Poems and Puzzles written by Mobile Media Marketing and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the first edition of A Barbadian Book of Poems and Puzzles. This book presents a wonderful world of poetry and puzzles. It is an eclectic collection of Barbadian poems and puzzles, penned mainly by friends, family and supporters of The Peoples Cathedral Primary School.This initiative was conceptualized to reawaken the art of poetry writing, bring to the fore topical issues that are a part of the social fabric of the society and lay the foundation for a national competition to showcase the diverse categories of poetry that is penned daily by many Barbadian in all strata of the society. The puzzles present a fun, exciting, yet relaxing way of learning about Barbados¿ history. They cover numerous themes including but not limited to sports, culture, national heroes, flora and fauna and civics.An electronic version of the book that contains all of the answers to the quiz, plus some sample poems can be found at www.EducateWithGames.org.Happy reading and happy hunting ¿ until the next edition.

Book Wild Plants of Barbados

Download or read book Wild Plants of Barbados written by Sean Carrington and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enables the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as 'just bush'. This title features over 500 entries all with colour photographs, and easy-to-follow descriptions to allow for identification.