Karibiska öarna

The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Perez Jr. "e;the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English."e; In this new edition of his acclaimed 1990 volume, he brings …

The closest we've ever come to the end of the world"e;DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history …

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a variety of state and non-state actors struggling to …

This book explores the fifty additional patterns and meanings contributed by ten orishas closely associated with the orisha, Obi. One of the paths to the spirits within Santeria is …

Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, …

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold …

Culture and Customs of Haiti begins with an overview of the mountainous island that seemed forbidding to European colonizers. Historical periods, including French colonization, …

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have …

Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an …

The poems in The Name for the God Who Speaks reference Caribbean deities, the power of weather and landscape and ancient myths to illuminate an annus horribilis of cancer and loss. …