Specifically written for the Caribbean English language lower secondary and CSES curriculum, the Connect series includes four levels of Students' Books and Teacher's Guides.
In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascin…
UPSILONChevere! is a brand-new 4-level Spanish course written specifically for Caribbean secondary schools, to provide students with all they need to succeed in Spanish.
Chevere! covers the lower secondary Spanish curriculum requirements. It combines attention to grammar with exercises and activities based on communication skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing).
This study of the slave plantation of Trinidad is based on the Trinidadian slave registration of 1813, 1815, and 1816, when the Registrar of Slaves recorded information on 17,087 plantation slaves. The principal goal of the study is to draw plausibl…
A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument. Now, Shannon Dudley gi…
When slavery ended in Trinidad in 1834 it marked the beginning of a turbulent period in the island's history. Donald Wood looks at the people and the land at the end of slavery and then describes the impact of the immigrants who came to stem the sud…
Success in English is a four book English course for the Caribbean that prepares students thoroughly for their CXC examination.
Designed for undergraduates with little or no background in world music, Music in Trinidad is one of several volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the main book in the Global Music Series, in any introductory world music or ethnomu…
V. S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between First and Third-World experience and is ordinarily viewed as possessing a unique authority on the subject of cross-cultural relations in the post-colonial era. In contesting this or…
A new title in Landmark's series of guides to islands.
When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed t…
Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and the links that existed with other territories and beyond. Calyp…
In this study of the development of a colonial Caribbean territory in the late nineteenth century the diverse peoples of Trinidad - Europeans, white Creoles of French, Spanish and English descent, Africans, Creole blacks, Venezuelans, Chinese and In…
This volume contains the award of the Arbitral Tribunal established to decide a maritime boundary dispute between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. The award is significant as it is the first ever delivered in a maritime delimitation submitted to ar…
The first new religion in the Caribbean since Rastafari, the Earth People draw on West African sources, assert a renascent African identity, and celebrate female creativity. They argue that Black people are the guardians of a natural environment, wh…
The two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost in the Carribean, offers a glorious combination of natural beauty and rich cultural attractions. This new guide covers top sites throughout Trinidad and Tobago, with a wealth of practica…
This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Given the structure of political and economic organiza…
This title is a volume in the "Global Music Series", edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Campbell. Appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, it is an overview of the musical traditions of Trinidad,…
This guide has an emphasis on practical information to enable visitors to make the most of their stay. The book is divided into three parts: 'Welcome to Trinidad and Tobago', 'Out and About' and 'Landmark FactFile'.