... developments in the Caribbean, especially in Cuba. The chapter also explores the ways the literal stage—in both theater and film—located Miami as a site for white leisure and recreation. Underpinned as it was by racist and colonial practices and ideologies, the idea of Miami as a site for pushing...

...This chapter focuses on Sidney Mintz, the rare Caribbean scholar who has studied the historical development of the Spanish Antilles while reflecting on their overall role in Caribbean social history. From a historical perspective uniquely grounded in ethnographic research in Puerto Rico, Jamaica...

...This chapter focuses on the modernist story Mintz tells about the Caribbean, which encompasses 400 years and links hemispheres, classes, and practices of consumption in important relationships of inequality. In this story, Mintz seeks to understand these relationships through a focus on both...

...This book is the third in a series that began with the publication in 2006 of Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean. That volume was primarily a study of the important role that the brilliant scholar and statesman from Trinidad and Tobago played in imagining...

... in the Caribbean. In June of 1803, prior to an official declaration of independence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the insurgent army in Saint Domingue, wrote to Lieutenant-Governor George Nugent of Jamaica. He informed Nugent of the inevitable movement for Haitian independence and assured him...

...The Alliance for Progress meant different things in Central American, Caribbean, and South American countries. The Kennedy administration hoped that military coups would not necessarily lead to long-term military rule. Action against Castro’s government, including Operation Mongoose, continued...

...The introduction presents the book’s core argument that contemporary African American and Caribbean women writers advocate for a reassessment of economic, social, and political practices within US and Caribbean societies while leading readers to greater class consciousness. Specifically, they use...

... Jonathan Florida Jamaica Native Americans no last name given Quakers Spain Florida Jonathan Dickinson Quakers Caribbean Commerce Indian Captivity Narrative Jonathan Dickinson was a seventeenth-century Quaker and sea merchant from Philadelphia. In 1696, he was returning from a voyage to Jamaica...

... Eschen Penny Zimmerman Andrew Caribbean Nicaragua Dominican Republic Haiti Anti-Colonialism “On the international scene there has now appeared a new actor: solidarity,” said Dominican Tulio Cestero in late 1919, as the end of the Great War provoked both elation and disillusionment at the peace...

... Indigenous peoples. This chapter explores the complex intermingling of sincere friendship and deep distrust in seventeenth-century French colonial contexts, with a particular focus on the Circum-Caribbean region. The first section of the chapter is dedicated to the ways Indigenous bodies and embodied...

..., and preferences for Africans by slave owners. The chapter also examines the clustering of African ethnicities in Louisiana during the course of the transshipment trade from the Caribbean. —Arriatas —Falupo Anthropology methodology of History quantitative studies xiii–xiv Iron Portugal Textiles Wine —Arada...

...This chapter focuses on the language of betrayed ideals used by American dissidents such as Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson to protest the United States's military intervention in East Asia and the Caribbean. It examines how foreign critics of American power helped shape the course of homegrown...

...Chapter 4 profiles the migration stories and integration processes of three individuals from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean who have settled in different parts of the state, forming transnational communities linking North Carolina to cities and towns in Latin America. We observe how...

... suggests that it would be more appropriate to speak of “salsas” rather than “salsa” given the richness of the Caribbean. It also describes the spirited return of Cuban music to the international scene and its relation to the debate on why the old son should be called “salsa.” In conclusion, the chapter...

... growth. This chapter examines the debates about population growth in Britain's Caribbean colonies—particularly Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados—both before and immediately after the end of slavery. It links these debates to assessments of the “mighty experiment” of slave emancipation and to some...

... Caribbean colonies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at the emergence of a range of new ideas about medicine and public health, together with immigration, designed to ensure the population growth needed to sustain the colonial economies. Chamberlain Joseph Guyana British...

...In the years after the end of slavery, the image of the “granny” midwife, described as practitioners of bush medicine, persisted in the British Caribbean. Traditional midwives were considered ignorant and superstitious women who inadvertently killed newborns and their mothers. In late nineteenth...

... Immanuel Wallerstein has defined as the extended Caribbean. Peter Hulme has offered one explanation of this region's extranational features: ecological integrity, its association in the European imagination with cannibalism, and its susceptibility to hurricanes. Hulme's study of the extended Caribbean...

...This chapter argues that the antecedents to direct French trade with Peru and Chile in the first decades of the eighteenth century lay in the last three decades of the seventeenth. From the 1670s to the early 1690s, simultaneously pushed by imperial efforts to curtail Caribbean piracy and pulled...

... Atkins Institution Soledad Cuba Barro Colorado Island BCI Beebe William Buitenzorg Gardens Cinchona Botanical Station de Bont Raf Kohler Robert Marine Biological Laboratory New York Botanical Garden NYBG Stazione Zoologica Treub Laboratory Caribbean Agribusiness Hawaii Panama Philippines...