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Book Synopsis A History of the Bahamian People by : Michael Craton
Download or read book A History of the Bahamian People written by Michael Craton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work concludes the important and monumental undertaking of Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, creating the most thorough and comprehensive history yet written of a Caribbean country and its people. In the first volume Michael Craton and Gail Saunders traced the developments of a unique archipelagic nation from aboriginal times to the period just before emancipation. This long-awaited second volume offers a description and interpretation of the social developments of the Bahamas in the years from 1830 to the present. Volume Two divides this period into three chronological sections, dealing first with adjustments to emancipation by former masters and former slaves between 1834 and 1900, followed by a study of the slow process of modernization between 1900 and 1973 that combines a systematic study of the stimulus of social change, a candid examination of current problems, and a penetrating but sympathetic analysis of what makes the Bahamas and Bahamians distinctive in the world. This work is an eminent product of the New Social History, intended for Bahamians, others interested in the Bahamas, and scholars alike. It skillfully interweaves generalizations and regional comparisons with particular examples, drawn from travelers' accounts, autobiographies, private letters, and the imaginative reconstruction of official dispatches and newspaper reports. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and original maps, it stands as a model for forthcoming histories of similar small ex-colonial nations in the region.
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People written by Michael Craton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Island in the Stream by : Michael Lambek
Download or read book Island in the Stream written by Michael Lambek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery written by Michael Craton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Torres Strait Islanders by : Jeremy Beckett
Download or read book Torres Strait Islanders written by Jeremy Beckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reactions of the Torres Strait Islanders, Australia's "other" indigenous minority, to colonialism and their position in Australian society, are compared with the Aborigine experience.
Download or read book Homeward Bound written by Sandra Riley and published by RILEY HALL. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporters of the British Crown found life in the Colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile.
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream written by Michael Craton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Natural History of The Bahamas by : Dave Currie
Download or read book The Natural History of The Bahamas written by Dave Currie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take this book with you on your next trip to the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands or keep it close to hand in your travel library. The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensive coverage of the terrestrial and coastal flora and fauna on the islands of the Bahamas archipelago, as well as of the region's natural history and ecology. Readers will gain an appreciation for the importance of conserving the diverse lifeforms on these special Caribbean islands. A detailed introduction to the history, geology, and climate of the islands. Beautifully illustrated, with more than seven hundred color photographs showcasing the diverse plants, fungi, and animals found on the Bahamian Archipelago.
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery written by Michael Craton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Traveller's History of Burma by : Gerry Abbott
Download or read book The Traveller's History of Burma written by Gerry Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerry Abbott weaves together an array of descriptions of Burma by early travellers. He has researched past travellers' accounts, and has elegantly tied them together in a vivid history of Burma. Abbot's thorough research into traveller's accounts of Burma creates a vivid account of the country's history. By selecting many succinet but telling eyewitness acounts that span almost six centuries, he introduces the reader to a rich and lively anthology of Burma the place, its culture and its inhabitants. Travellers to Burma will be enriched by the book's accounts of others who have
Book Synopsis Here, Now, and Always by : Joan Kathryn O'Donnell
Download or read book Here, Now, and Always written by Joan Kathryn O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the meanings of home as they are embodied in Native American art works.
Book Synopsis Bahamian Memories by : Olga Culmer Jenkins
Download or read book Bahamian Memories written by Olga Culmer Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allowing each person's story to stand with its own color, texture, and pattern, Olga Jenkins has created a people's history of The Bahamas. Those interviewed were born between 1900 and 1942, and their voices are as varied as the populations of the eight islands the author visited, including black, white, mixed, and working- and middle-class individuals.
Book Synopsis Unity of Heart by : Keith Stanley Chambers
Download or read book Unity of Heart written by Keith Stanley Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are social anthropologists affiliated with Southern Oregon University. They write here about their fieldwork in Nanumea, one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu. The book includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a study guide, but, inexplicably, no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis People of the Shoals by : Kenneth E. Sassaman
Download or read book People of the Shoals written by Kenneth E. Sassaman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Known best for their innovations in making pottery, these prehistoric foragers occupied the middle Savannah River valley of Georgia and South Carolina some 4,000 years ago. Sassaman offers several controversial theories about the Stallings people, arguing that they arose from interactions between two distinctive ethnic groups, organized themselves around clusters of related women, not men, established permanent villages like their counterparts on the coast, and abandoned the middle Savannah River valley when the social costs of traditional living became intolerable. Basing this work on 12 years of field research, he presents new findings about the Stallings way of life, including details about ritual, marriage alliances, community organization, and food economy.".
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream written by Michael Craton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Shared Aesthetic by : Geoffrey K. Fleming
Download or read book A Shared Aesthetic written by Geoffrey K. Fleming and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its settlement by British colonists in the 17th century, the North Fork of Long Island, New York has attracted artisans of all types, from cabinet makers to clock-makers and builders to boatwrights. Beginning in the mid-19th century, American artists began to explore the area in depth, visiting its picturesque towns and villages, its untouched landscapes and pristine coastlines. Later, many of these visiting artists built or bought properties on the North Fork, and made it a place to call home. "A Shared Aesthetic" explores the history of the many painters, printmakers and sculptors who lived, worked and exhibited on the North Fork. It documents over three-hundred years of the rich artistic and cultural history of the area through original letters, diaries, photographs, and the artworks themselves. 127 colour & 42 b/w illustrations
Book Synopsis Islanders in the Stream: From the ending of slavery to the twenty-first century by : Michael Craton
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream: From the ending of slavery to the twenty-first century written by Michael Craton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
