History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World, Paperback - Frank Moya Pons

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations - building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on co...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frank Moya Pons"This book is excellent." -- Junot Diaz, in the New York Times Book Review "Frank Moya Pons is the best-know...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

Reducere. In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yor...

Examines the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. This work captures the mult...

Reducere. "The conventional view of World War II as a conflict that was not fought in the Americas is debunked in this fascinating book. German submarine war...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. JarvisIn an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's...

This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED O...

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

The complete history of the building of PT boats for the U.S. Navy at the Elco, Higgins, and Huckins plants. One hundred sixty-two full-page illust...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

A history of Norfolk in the Second World WarPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Frank MeeresNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2008Dimens...

A history of Norfolk in the First World War

Reducere. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and ...

At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant ...

Contributor(s): Author: Dan KurzmanThe sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was on...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Reducere. This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Com...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Reducere. Savannah is as Southern a place as has ever existed, and the Savannah River Plantations were the pinnacle of Southern heritage. Place names such as...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart...

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

Fascinating narrative of the fierce battle for Scandinavian trade in the North Sea. The fourth book dealing with the various theatres of trade defe...