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Author : Florence Lewisohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book St. Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence Lewisohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Saint Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence Lewisohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)
Download or read book St. Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Cynthia Oliver
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800265
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Virgins written by M. Cynthia Oliver and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created Creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
Author : Stanford Joines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983183270
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Eighth Flag written by Stanford Joines and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. Pirates. Visions of cartoon characters dancing around a cauldron with an explorer tied inside. Balboa gazing on the Pacific Ocean. De Leon and the fountain of youth. Pizarro conquering the Incas. Henry Morgan, in red, drinking spiced rum. Smoke curling around Blackbeard as his cutlass slashes through the air. ... all children's tales that mean nothing. Today, we do not know who any of these people were, how they came to do what they did, or why they did it. The struggle for power, freedom, and wealth that shaped the Caribbean for two and a half centuries has, since John Barrie created Peter Pan, been relegated to the same literary section as Barney the Dinosaur; yet, underneath the soil of the modern world, the roots are still there. I started pulling them up on St. Croix, and the roots led to more roots, and more. Islands connected, nations connected, and legends came to life. Officially, St. Croix has flown seven flags over the last 500 years. Before the American flag and the Danebrog, the Spanish came for gold, the Dutch to trade, the English to raid, and the Knights of St. John to be in charge. The French built a colony only to watch it die of fever. During all of those years, Pirates, Conquistadors, Freebooters, Filibustiers, Corsairs, Buccaneers -whatever you call them- ruled the Caribbean and called St. Croix home, stealing at sea whether they had 'permission' to do so or not, and paying no attention at all to whatever European flag was flying. It is time to recognize our eighth flag. It was black. This is the untold story of St. Croix and a Caribbean long forgotten. Come. Sail with me.
Author : Robert Amandus Johnson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425970087
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Saint Croix 1770-1776 written by Robert Amandus Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of Saint Croix from 1770-1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American "Stars and Stripes." This occurred in Christiansted, St Croix in June 1776, prior to Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. This early "Stars and Stripes" was being flown from the American Brig "Nancy." The American Revolutionary Financier, Robert Morris had chartered the Brig "Nancy," on behalf of Congress, to acquire critically needed gunpowder in the Danish West Indies. Mr. Johnson resides in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, his adopted home since first arriving as an Ensign in the U.S Navy in 1959.
Author : Eliseo Perez-Alvarez
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903587
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book A Vexing Gadfly written by Eliseo Perez-Alvarez and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay on Soren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media, church, university, and theatre as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.
Author : Jeppe Mulich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489729
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book In a Sea of Empires written by Jeppe Mulich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Author : Niklas Thode Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763531712
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book For the Health of the Enslaved written by Niklas Thode Jensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. With the end of the slave trade, the longstanding excess mortality in the hardworking enslaved population became a crucial problem for the colony because the slaves could no longer be replaced. This book explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government. The investigation reveals that, in a comparative Caribbean perspective, Danish West Indian health policies were often quite unique and efficient, but also that the health of the enslaved was a contested field, showing an ongoing power struggle between the planters, the colonial administration, and the slaves themselves.
Author : Kathleen D. Dowling
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Closer Look written by Kathleen D. Dowling and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a non-fiction historical account of the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) Emancipation of 1848. This book entails Danish-to-English translations of depositions, court trials and testimony from the enslaved population as well as the Danish officials. Additionally, there’s much personal information included about the two main heroes (John “General Buddhoe” Gottlieb and Admiral Martin King) of the Emancipation and the tumultuous events leading up to and inclusive of the July 3, 1848 Emancipation Day. Some of the personal letters of the then Governor-General Peter von Scholten is also included along with very surprising information about his mistress, Anna Heegaard.
Author : Carl A. Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317777883
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book History of Multicultural Education Volume 5 written by Carl A. Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. The volumes reflect the tenets of multicultural education, its history, its present, and individuals whose work has contributed significantly to equity and social justice for all citizens. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the last 30-40 years, this set provides a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society. The volumes do not promote any one scholar’s or group’s vision of multicultural education, but include conflicting ideals that inform multiple interpretations. Each volume contains archival documents organized around a specific theme: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Content; Foundations and Stratifications; Instruction and Assessment; Policy and Governance; Students and Student Achievement; Teachers and Teacher Education. The historical time line within each volume illustrates the progression of research and theory on its theme and encourages readers to reflect on the changes in language and thinking concerning educational scholarship in that area.
Author : Leif Svalesen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253337771
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Slave Ship Fredensborg written by Leif Svalesen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author relates the history of this European slave ship, and includes a day-by-day account of how life on the ship in the 1700s may have been. Color illustrations and b&w photos.
Author : Miki Garcia
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789042690
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Caribbean Irish written by Miki Garcia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean Irish explores the little known fact that the Irish were amongst the earliest settlers in the Caribbean. They became colonisers, planters and merchants living in the British West Indies between 1620 and 1800 but the majority of them arrived as indentured servants. This book explores their lives and poses the question, were they really slaves? As African slaves started arriving en masse and taking over servants’ tasks, the role of the Irish gradually diminished. But the legacy of the Caribbean Irish still lives on.
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodor
ISBN 13 : 0679009639
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Fodor's U.S. & British Virgin Islands written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff and published by Fodor. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers recommendations for hotels, restaurants, sightseeing, nightlife, outdoor activities, and shopping.
Author : Jeannette A. Bastian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052379
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Owning Memory written by Jeannette A. Bastian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records. Because the historical records of the Virgin Islands reside primarily in Denmark and the United States, Virgin Islanders have had limited access to the primary sources of their history and this has affected both their ability to write their own history and to construct their collective memory. But while a strong oral tradition, often in competition with the written tradition, influences the ways in which this community remembers, it also underlines the dilemma of interpreting the history of the colonized through the records of the colonizer. The story of the Virgin Islands and its search for its memory includes an exploration of how this community, through public commemorations and folk tradition has formed its memory to date, and the role that archives play in this process. Interwoven throughout is a broader analysis of the place of archives and archivists in helping communities find their history. The book is exceptionally well written and will appeal to historians, archivists and those interested in the Carribean.
Author : Carol M. Bareuther
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400008654
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fodor's U.S. & British Virgin Islands written by Carol M. Bareuther and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers recommendations for hotels, restaurants, sightseeing, nightlife, outdoor activities, and shopping.
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Author : Kimberly J. Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1437 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Americas [2 volumes] written by Kimberly J. Morse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.
