Held Hostage In The Bahamas

Author : Regina Sears-Muschett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425991791

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Held Hostage in the Bahamas by Regina Sears-Muschett Pdf

Held Hostage in the Bahamas is one woman's difficult struggle to obtain her permanent resident card. After living in the United States for twenty-six years, as an undocumented alien. She must now return to her country of birth to receive that sought after Permanent Resident Green Card. Things take an unexpected turn for the worse when she arrives in the Bahamas. Her privileges to return to the United States are denied by Homeland Security, She is faced with the prospect of dealing with the red tape of our immigration system. She struggled with the separation from a loving husband and three children. Disconnected from her life in New York and the financial loss of her Child Care Business, she has to endure the shame of having to depend on her family to support her for more than ten months. She takes her anger, sadness, and misfortunes and turned them into rejoicing. She moved beyond her situation to get to know the family and home she had been running away from for so long. She gained a deeper understanding of the verse in Hebrews 13:5b, "I will never leave you nor forsake you," making her more aware of how much God is in control of her life.

Author : Michael Craton,Gail Saunders
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820342733

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Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People by Michael Craton,Gail Saunders Pdf

From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838. This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820313825

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Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery by Michael Craton Pdf

From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838. This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.

Author : Gail Saunders
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063317

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Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 by Gail Saunders Pdf

"Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars who conduct comparative research on the British Caribbean."--Rosalyn Howard, author of Black Seminoles in the Bahamas "Saunders is to be commended for a scholarly study that prominently features the non-white majority in the Bahamas--a group which usually has been overlooked."--Whittington B. Johnson, author of Post-Emancipation Race Relations in The Bahamas In this one-of-a-kind study of race and class in the Bahamas, Gail Saunders shows how racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across other British West Indian colonies but instead mirrored the inflexible color line of the United States. Proximity to the U.S. and geographic isolation from other British colonies created a uniquely Bahamian interaction among racial groups. Focusing on the post-emancipation period from the 1880s to the 1960s, Saunders considers the entrenched, though extra-legal, segregation prevalent in most spheres of life that lasted well into the 1950s. Saunders traces early black nationalist and pan-Africanism movements, as well as the influence of Garveyism and Prohibition during World War I. She examines the economic depression of the 1930s and the subsequent boom in the tourism industry, which boosted the economy but worsened racial tensions: proponents of integration predicted disaster if white tourists ceased traveling to the islands. Despite some upward mobility of mixed-race and black Bahamians, the economy continued to be dominated by the white elite, and trade unions and labor-based parties came late to the Bahamas. Secondary education, although limited to those who could afford it, was the route to a better life for nonwhite Bahamians and led to mixed-race and black persons studying in professional fields, which ultimately brought about a rising political consciousness. Training her lens on the nature of relationships among the various racial and social groups in the Bahamas, Saunders tells the story of how discrimination persisted until at last squarely challenged by the majority of Bahamians.

Author : Keith L. Tinker
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460205549

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The African Diaspora to the Bahamas by Keith L. Tinker Pdf

Current historiography on aspects of Bahamian history presents limited research on the African presence in the islands, irrespective of the fact that arguably 85% of the population of that country is represented by such persons. One primary objective of this book is to begin to more adequately address this literary ommission by presenting an initial comprehensive work on the subject. The book attempts to trace the origin of this migration by focusing on some of the primary dynamics of ethnicity within the context of the geo-politics and geo-economics of the emerging Atlantic world. It is hoped that the reader will emerge with a greater awareness of, and wider insight into Bahamian history, and, the Bahamian majority will leave with a greater sense of what it truly means to be a Bahamian....

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Bahamas
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018209097

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The Bahamas Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Farber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400826209

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Taken Hostage by David Farber Pdf

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber takes the first in-depth look at the hostage crisis, examining its lessons for America's contemporary War on Terrorism. Unlike other histories of the subject, Farber's vivid and fast-paced narrative looks beyond the day-to-day circumstances of the crisis, using the events leading up to the ordeal as a means for understanding it. The book paints a portrait of the 1970s in the United States as an era of failed expectations in a nation plagued by uncertainty and anxiety. It reveals an American government ill prepared for the fall of the Shah of Iran and unable to reckon with the Ayatollah Khomeini and his militant Islamic followers. Farber's account is filled with fresh insights regarding the central players in the crisis: Khomeini emerges as an astute strategist, single-mindedly dedicated to creating an Islamic state. The Americans' student-captors appear as less-than-organized youths, having prepared for only a symbolic sit-in with just a three-day supply of food. ABC news chief Roone Arledge, newly installed and eager for ratings, is cited as a critical catalyst in elevating the hostages to cause célèbre status. Throughout the book there emerge eerie parallels to the current terrorism crisis. Then as now, Farber demonstrates, politicians failed to grasp the depth of anger that Islamic fundamentalists harbored toward the United States, and Americans dismissed threats from terrorist groups as the crusades of ineffectual madmen. Taken Hostage is a timely and revealing history of America's first engagement with terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, one that provides a chilling reminder that the past is only prologue.

Author : A. Talbot Bethell
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Bahamas
ISBN : 9780806350509

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The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America by A. Talbot Bethell Pdf

The history of the colonization of the Bahamas and the first royal governor, Woodes Rogers, Esquire; interwoven with the history of the United States. The author begins the book with the history of the New World, starting in A.D. 986 with the arrival of n

Author : Greg Dobbs
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440152757

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Life in the Wrong Lane by Greg Dobbs Pdf

The book is called Life in the Wrong Lane because thats where journalists live: in the one lane heading toward a catastrophe. Everyone whos normal is in the other lane, any other lane, going the other way. Theyre getting out. Although Dobbss travels, first for ABC News and now for HDNet Television, have taken him to many troubled corners of the country and the world, Life in the Wrong Lane isnt a travel guide about exotic places or a contemporary history of the events he covered. Rather, its about all the funny, bizarre, scary, stupid, dangerous, distasteful, unwise, and unbelievable things that journalists experience just getting to the point of reporting a story, experiences that possibly are even more interesting than the stories being covered, but which never become part of the stories they finally report to their audiences.

Author : Pierre Salinger
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 038517750X

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America Held Hostage by Pierre Salinger Pdf

A behind-the-scenes account of the negotiations to free the 52 hostages held by revolutionary students in Iran.

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405517089

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The Duke of Windsor's War by Michael Bloch Pdf

Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France;as Governor of the Bahamas 1940-45, he succeeded in what was regarded as one of the most difficult posts in the British Empire.But at the same time he and his wife (to marry whom he had given up a throne) had a second war to contend with - against King George VI and Queen Elizabeth who were determined to treat them as outcasts.This book caused a furore on publication, being the first work to give a detailed account of the bitter relations between the ex-King and his family.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2080 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B466578

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Oversight of the Operation of the U.S. Geological Survey by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015078636308

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Oversight--Federal Energy Administration Programs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110716490

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Oversight-Federal Energy Administration Programs by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee Pdf

Author : Steven F. Hayward
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780895260901

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The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven F. Hayward Pdf

Hayward reveals a man who, he argues, has been given a dangerously free pass by historians; who is not only a failed ex-president, but as vindictive as he is egotistical; and a self-righteous busybody who leaves disaster in his wake.