From Colonies To Countries In The North Caribbean

Author : Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez,Gene A. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781443887489

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From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean by Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez,Gene A. Smith Pdf

This volume brings together eight essays that address the result of a research project involving a group of international scholars. It explores a little-discussed, yet interesting phenomenon in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico region – how military engineers reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons and, in doing so, laid the foundations for broader colonial development. Moreover, this transnational scenario reveals how military construction reached beyond cross-borders themes and histories from the age of imperialism. As such, this book provides valuable insights into the role of military engineers in the process of articulating new American countries from the late 18th to 19th century. While this time period is full of international and local conflicts, it remains essential for understanding the region’s history – from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean Sea – and even its current situation. Due to independence movements and Spain’s Decree of Free Trade (1778), the region’s connection with Europe changed dramatically. This affected the entire American continent, but had a particularly peculiar in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. For this reason, this volume underlines the key role of military engineers on other fields, from railroad design to environmental intervention, through cartographical works, and in diplomacy, all the while overcoming the traditional perspective of military engineers as being only builders of structures for war.

Author : Jack Webb,Roderick Westmaas,Maria del Pilar Kaladeen,William Tantam
Publisher : Open access titles
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 190885765X

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Memory, Migration and (de)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond by Jack Webb,Roderick Westmaas,Maria del Pilar Kaladeen,William Tantam Pdf

In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, migration and (de)colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.

Author : Jack Webb,Rod Westmaas,Maria del Pilar Kaladeen,William Tantam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1908857765

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Memory, Migration and (de)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond by Jack Webb,Rod Westmaas,Maria del Pilar Kaladeen,William Tantam Pdf

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293395

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An Empire Divided by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy Pdf

There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.

Author : Pieter C. Emmer,Jos J.L. Gommans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108428378

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The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 by Pieter C. Emmer,Jos J.L. Gommans Pdf

This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.

Author : Adrian Leonard,D. Pretel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137432728

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The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy by Adrian Leonard,D. Pretel Pdf

This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.

Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634449

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Children of Uncertain Fortune by Daniel Livesay Pdf

By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.

Author : Pedro Luengo,Gene Allen Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361525

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A Fortified Sea by Pedro Luengo,Gene Allen Smith Pdf

"Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency"--

Author : Franklin W. Knight,Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469617329

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The Modern Caribbean by Franklin W. Knight,Colin A. Palmer Pdf

This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark the region, the authors offer readers a thorough understanding of the Caribbean's history and culture. The essays also comment thoughtfully on the problems that confront the Caribbean in today's world. The essays focus on the Caribbean island and the mainland enclaves of Belize and the Guianas. Topics examined include the Haitian Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; labor and society in the nineteenth-century Caribbean; society and culture in the British and French West Indies since 1870; identity, race, and black power in Jamaica; the "February Revolution" of 1970 in Trinidad; contemporary Puerto Rico; politics, economy, and society in twentieth-century Cuba; Spanish Caribbean politics and nationalism in the nineteenth century; Caribbean migrations; economic history of the British Caribbean; international relations; and nationalism, nation, and ideology in the evolution of Caribbean literature. The authors trace the historical roots of current Caribbean difficulties and analyze these problems in the light of economic, political, and social developments. Additionally, they explore these conditions in relation to United States interests and project what may lie ahead for the region. The challenges currently facing the Caribbean, note the editors, impose a heavy burden upon political leaders who must struggle "to eliminate the tensions when the people are so poor and their expectations so great." The contributors are Herman L. Bennett, Bridget Brereton, David Geggus, Franklin W. Knight, Anthony P. Maingot, Jay R. Mandle, Roberto Marquez, Teresita Martinez Vergne, Colin A. Palmer, Bonham C. Richardson, Franciso A. Scarano, and Blanca G. Silvestrini.

Author : Roger Leech,Pamela Leech
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275656

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The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean by Roger Leech,Pamela Leech Pdf

New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.

Author : Jeannette A. Bastian,Stanley H. Griffin,John A. Aarons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Archives
ISBN : 1634000595

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Decolonizing the Caribbean Record by Jeannette A. Bastian,Stanley H. Griffin,John A. Aarons Pdf

Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader is a compendium of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of the Caribbean region that address challenges of collecting, representing and preserving the records and cultural expressions of former colonial societies, exploring the contribution of these records to nation-building. How the power of the archives can be subverted to serve the oppressed rather than the oppressors, the colonized rather than the colonizers, is the central theme of this Reader. This collection seeks to disrupt traditional notions of archives, instead re-imagining records within the context of Caribbean cultures and identities where the oral may be privileged over the written, the creative design over text, the marginal over the mainstream. Envisioned initially as a foundational text that supports the archives education program at the University of the West Indies and documents the history and development of archives and records in the Caribbean, this volume addresses such issues as oral traditions, records repatriation, community archives, cultural forms and format and diasporic collections. Although focused on the Caribbean region, the essays, ranging from the theoretical to the practice-based to the personal are applicable to the global archival concerns of all decolonized societies.

Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230766181

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Empire's Crossroads by Carrie Gibson Pdf

In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term 'globalization' was coined. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters - but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists. It is not only a story of imperial expansion - European and American - but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.

Author : Richard Albert,Se-shauna Wheatle,Derek O'Brien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198793045

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The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions by Richard Albert,Se-shauna Wheatle,Derek O'Brien Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions offers a detailed and analytical view of the constitutions of the Caribbean region, examining the constitutional development of its diverse countries. The Handbook explains the features of the region's constitutions and examines themes emerging from the Caribbean's experience with constitutional interpretation and reform.0Part I, 'Caribbean Constitutions in the World', highlights what is distinctive about the constitutions of the Caribbean. Part II covers the constitutions of the Caribbean in detail, offering a rich analysis of the constitutional history, design, controversies, and future challenges in each country or group of countries. Each chapter in this section addresses topics such as the impact of key historical and political events on the constitutional landscape for the jurisdiction, a systematic account of the interaction between the legislature and the executive, the civil service, the electoral system,0and the independence of the judiciary.0Part III addresses fundamental rights debates and developments in the region, including the death penalty and socio-economic rights. Finally, Part IV features critical reflections on the challenges and prospects for the region, including the work of the Caribbean Court of Justice and the future of constitutional reform.0This is the first book of its kind, bringing together in a single volume a comprehensive review of the constitutional development of the entire Caribbean region, from the Bahamas in the north to Guyana and Suriname in South America, and all the islands in between. While written in English, the book embraces the linguistic and cultural diversity of the region, and covers the Anglophone Caribbean as well as the Spanish-, French-, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries.

Author : Eliga Gould,Paul Mapp,Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108317818

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The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820 by Eliga Gould,Paul Mapp,Carla Gardina Pestana Pdf

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

Author : Frank Moya Pons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002901853

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History of the Caribbean by Frank Moya Pons Pdf

Explores the history, context, and consequences of the major changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great Depression. This book investigates indigenous commercial ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in the 16th century, and the impact of slavery.