People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange
Added by: alzoar | Karma: 1152.51 | Other | 9 November 2014
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Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of four key individuals: historian/archivist Arthur Schomburg, writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, jazz poet Jayne Cortez, and theologian/politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others.
"A Caribbean Mystery" by Agatha Christie [UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK WITH TEXT]
Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun, an old soldier talks of elephant-shooting and scandals. Then he dies - and the deceptively frail detective investigates a most exotic murder.
The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves 30 feet high and blow through houses at amazing speeds. When meteorologist Perry Stuart goes on a hurricane-chasing ride in the Caribbean, he learns about more than wind speed.
"This colorful picture ID guide to over 170 plants and animals of the Mexican Caribbean is a wonderful introduction to the wildlife you are most likely to encounter on your next vacation in Mexico- whether diving, exploring ancient Mayan ruins, strolling through your hotel gardens, or just relaxing at the beach. Biologist David A. Nu?ez will introduce you to: the largest fish on the planet, a monkey with no thumbs, a bird that spends days in flight, the fastest lizard in the world, a bird that uses tools, a lizard with no eyelids, and many more extraordinary creatures. Proceeds from this book benefit environmental conservation and education projects in Mexico."
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