Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Del Amor y Otros Demonios


García Márquez, Gabriel, Del amor y otros demonios, Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma, 1994.

Disponible en línea (PDF).

Del amor y otros demonios es una obra literaria escrita por Gabriel García Márquez y publicada en el año 1994. Relata la historia de Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, quien ha sufrido grandes calvarios a lo largo de su corta vida. En este proceso narrativo se van describiendo diversos paisajes de Cartagena-Colombia en la época colonial con sus problemas sociales, culturales, ambientales, etc.


Of Love and Other Demons is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994. (…) In the prologue, García Márquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his grandmother as a child: of a 12 year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a 'miracle-worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. In this frame-story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that García Márquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with long red hair still attached to the skull, that he was inspired to write Of Love and Other Demons.

El General en su Laberinto


García Márquez, Gabriel, El General en su Laberinto, Bogotá: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1989.

El general en su laberinto es una novela del escritor colombiano y Premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel García Márquez. Se trata de una novela histórica que recrea los últimos días de Simón Bolívar, uno de los principales líderes de los procesos de independencia política desarrollados en América del Sur en el primer cuarto del siglo XIX. Publicado en 1989, el relato se centra en el último episodio protagonizado por Bolívar: el viaje que le llevó de Cartagena a la costa caribeña de Colombia para intentar abandonar América y exiliarse en Europa. En la novela, que se puede encuadrar en el subgénero narrativo de las novelas de dictadores, "la desesperanza, la enfermedad y la muerte inevitablemente superan al amor, la salud y la vida".1 Rompiendo con la tradicional visión heroica de Bolívar, ofrece un retrato del libertador cercano al patetismo y subrayando los rasgos que acompañan a su prematura vejez: físicamente enfermo y mentalmente exhausto.2 La novela explora los laberintos de la vida de Bolívar a través de la narración de sus recuerdos.


The General in His Labyrinth is a novel by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. First published in 1989, the book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe. In this dictator novel about a continental hero, "despair, sickness, and death inevitably win out over love, health, and life".[1] Breaking with the traditional heroic portrayal of Bolívar El Libertador, García Márquez depicts a pathetic protagonist, a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally exhausted.[2] The story explores the labyrinth of Bolívar's life through the narrative of his memories.

Vega, Bernardo, Evaluación de la Política de Industrialización de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo: Bernardo Vega, Julio, 1973.

Reseñada en Estudios del Caribe.

Wikipedia:
Bernardo Vega Boyrie (born February 23, 1938) is a Dominican writer, historian, anthropologist and economist. (…)Vega is one of the most prolific authors in the Dominican Republic, his bibliography is composed of about fifty titles and covers the fields of history, anthropology and economics. He has also compiled important documents on the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship and its relationship with the United States government. His writings on economics, history and politics frequently appear in the national press.

George, Third Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605, His Life and his Voyages


Williamson, George Charles, George, Third Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605, His Life and his Voyages: A Study from Original Documents, London: Cambridge University Press, 1920.

Available on-line.

Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, KG (8 August 1558 – 30 October 1605) was an English peer, as well as a naval commander and courtier in the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
(…)
He is famous for his short lived 1598 capture of Fort San Felipe del Morro, the citadel protecting San Juan, Puerto Rico. He arrived in Puerto Rico on 15 June 1598 but by November of that year Clifford and his men had fled the island due to harsh civilian resistance.

Revista eme eme: Estudios Dominicanos, diez números (Journals)


Revista eme eme: Estudios Dominicanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra - Recinto Santo Tomás de Aquino, Republica Dominicana, 1973 - 74. (Diez Números)

Disponibles en línea:

volumen 1, número 1.
volumen 1, número 3.
volumen 1, número 4.

volumen 2, número 8.
volumen 2, número 9.
volumen 2, número 10.
volumen 2, número 12.

volumen 3, número 18.

volumen 4, número 19.
volumen 4, número 20.

Monday, December 29, 2014

The Plantation: A Bibliography


Thompson, Edgar T., The Plantation: A Bibliography, Social Science Monographs IV, Washington D.C.: Pan American Union, 1957.

Available online.

Edgar Tristram Thompson (September 13, 1900 – April 22, 1989) was born in Dillon, South Carolina in 1900.[1] He was raised on his father's small plantation right at the border of North and South Carolina. He would eventually become an authority on the historical sociology of the plantation and its role in shaping European colonization of the New World. He studied sociology at the University of Chicago under Robert Park.


See also Guide to the Edgar Tristram Thompson papers, 1915 - 1985.

Annales des Antilles, Année 1963 (Journal)


Cotrell, René, Annales des Antilles, Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de la Martinique, Année 1963, No. 11.(deux copies)

Indizado en línea.

Indice:
1. Les Caraïbes vus par les premiers chroniqueurs français.

2. Relation des missions des P de la Compagnie de Jésus, par le Pierre PELLEPRAT.

3. Histoire et voyage des Indes Occidentales, par le G. COPPIER.

4. Voyage des Iles camercanes en l'Amérique, par le Maurile de ST. MICHEL.

5. Les desseins de S. E. de Richelieu pour l'Amérique, par le André CHEVILLARD.

6. Relation de l'établissement d'une colonie française dans la Guadeloupe, par le F. Mathias DU PUIS.

7. Relation de l'établissement des Français en l'Ile Martinique, par le Jacques BOUTON.

8. De l'origine, mœurs, religion et autres façons de faire des Caraîbes appelés communément sauvages, anciens habitants de la Guadeloupe, par le Raymond BRETON.

Marchands et colons des îles, quelques lettres du XVIIe siècle (separata)


Delafosse, Marcel & Gabriel Debien, Marchands et colons des îles, quelques lettres du XVIIe siècle, Extrait de la "Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer", 1961.

Disponible en línea.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Les Origines des Esclaves Antillais: IV


Houdaille, Jacques & Gabriel Debien, Les origines des esclaves antillais: IV, Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, sér. B, 27, 1-2 (1964).

Indice:
32. Sur une sucrerie de la Guyane en 1690.

”Ménages du premier may 1690, par inventaire fait”
Hommes veufs et leurs enfants.
Femmes veuves et leurs enfants.
Garçons.
Indiens garçons.
Indiennes aveugles.
I. Les sites de traite.
II. Arrivées des esclaves.
III. Ménages et christianisation.
IV. Les ages.
V. Au travail. Les métiers.
VI. Les noms.

33. A Saint Domingue; L’atelier de la sucrerie Santo Domingo a Léogane (1781)

34. Caféières des Mornes aux Grands-Bois (1796 – 1797)

Sur une Sucrerie de la Guyane en 1690 (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Sur une Sucrerie de la Guyane en 1690, Notes d’histoire coloniale – No. 77, Dakar, 1964.

voir aussi Les origines des esclaves antillais: IV.

Indice:
”Ménages du premier may 1690, par inventaire fait”
Hommes veufs et leurs enfants.
Femmes veuves et leurs enfants.
Garçons.
Indiens garçons.
Indiennes aveugles.
I. Les sites de traite.
II. Arrivées des esclaves.
III. Ménages et christianisation.
IV. Les ages.
V. Au travail. Les métiers.
VI. Les noms.


L'occasion nous vient d'etudier une liste d'esclaves de Cayenne à la fin du XVIIe siècle. Pour la date, et pour la Guyane, le document est rare. La Guyane est en marge des Antilles dans les habitudes de vue des historiens français. En réalité entre les îles et les Guyanes les liens ont toujours été vivants. Les mêmes origines africaines de leur main d'oeuvre, en faisaient par bien des problèmes sociaux et économiques, un monde commun.


First paragraph roughly translated:
The opportunity comes to study a list of cayenne slaves in the late seventeenth century. To date, and for Guyana, the document is rare. Guyana is on the fringe of the West Indies in order to habits of French historians. In fact between the islands and the Guianas links have been alive. The same African roots of their workforce, made them in many social and economic problems, a common world.

Une branche des Sainte-Marthe aux îles au XVIIe siècle (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Une branche des Sainte-Marthe aux îles au XVIIe siècle, Extrait du Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l’Ouest, 1964.

Dans une de ses Chroniques de Poitiers aux XVe et XVIe siècle. Alfred Barbier assure en parlant des Sainte-Marthe "qu'il est rare de voir s'accumuler sur un même nom autant de titres à une legitime illustration." C'est aux Sainte-Marthe poète, médecin du roi, trésoriers de France, lieutenants généraux de la Sénéchaussée de Poitou, échevins de Poitiers ou généalogistes et historiens, qu'il pensait, et à leurs alliances, mais il laissant dans l'ombre une branche de cette famille qui ne mérite pas plus l'oubli que les rameaux plus illustres: la branche des Sainte-Marthe coloniaux. Voici une vue sommaire et quelques documents sur cette branche qui s'établit aux îles dans le dernier tiers du XVIIe siecle et qui essaima sans doute aussi au Canada. Elle est peu connue en Poitou.


Several sentences roughly translated:
In one of his Chronicles of Poitiers the fifteenth and sixteenth century, Alfred Barber ensures speaking of Sainte Marthe, "it is rare to see accumulate on one same name as many legitimate titles illustration." It is up to Sainte-Marthe poet, king's physician, treasurers of France, lieutenant-generals of the Seneschal of Poitou, aldermen of Poitiers or genealogists and historians, he thought, and their alliances, but leaving in the shadows a branch of this family deserves no more forgetting than most illustrious branches: the branch of colonial Sainte Marthe. Here is a summary view and some documents on that branch which is established in the islands in the last third of the seventeenth century and which spread probably also in Canada. It is little known in Poitou.

La Christianisation des Esclaves des Antilles Françaises aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles


Debien, Gabriel, La christianisation des esclaves des Antilles françaises aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Mars et Juin, 1967).

Disponible en línea.

Aux Antilles sous la Révolution, marins français au service de l'Espagne (separata)


Lozach, Jean, Aux Antilles sous la Révolution, marins français au service de l'Espagne, Notes d'histoire Coloniale, núm. 97, Extrait des Annales des Antilles, 1966.

Indice
Deux documents de ces dossiers ont paru donner une idée du genre d'intérêt de ce petit fonds, et valoir la peine d'être publiés à part en guise d'introduction. C'est: La Suite de l'Extrait de mon journal du comte de Rivière, chef de la Division des Isles du Vent (12 Mars 1791 - 29 août 1793); Le "Mémoire par lequel V.E. peut établir et juger les droits que le comte de la Rivière et les officiers de sa division ont aquis (sic) aux faveurs de S.M.C." Ce mémoire du comte de Malleveault, lieutenant de vaisseau, est adressé de Cadix en 1795 au ministre de la marine espagnole.


West Indies during the Revolution, French sailors in the service of Spain:
Two documents of such records appeared to give an idea of the kind of interest that little funds and worth to be published separately by way of introduction. That is: The Series of Extracts from the diary of Count de Rivière, head of the Windward Isles Division (March 12, 1791 - August 29, 1793) & The "Memory by which VE can establish and determine the rights that the Count de Rivière and the officers of his division Aquis (sic) to SMC favors" The memoire of Count Malleveault, first lieutenant, address in Cadiz in 1795 to the Minister of the Spanish Navy.


See also the first two pages of The revolution in Martinique and royalist migration towards the Spanish mainland (1790-1808), by Alejandro E. Gómez.

Papiers d'Afrique


Ganier, Ms. G., Papiers d'Afrique, Notes d'histoire coloniale, n° 68, Dakar, 1963.

C'est à la générosité de M. Gabriel Ballot, ingénieur des ponts et Chaussées, que nous devons les précieux documents réunis par son pére, le gouverneur Victor Ballot. Confiés à Mlle Ganier qui en a dressé avec un plaisir de connaisseur, un minutieux inventaire, ils ont été communiqués aux Archives Nationales. Un microfilm en a été pris qui est accessible au public sous la cote: Mi 185. C'est l'inventaire de ces papiers qui est présenté ici.


Roughly translated:
It is the generosity of Mr. Gabriel Ballot civil engineer Roads, that we have the precious documents his father, Governor Victor Ballot. Entrusted to Miss Ganier who drew up with a connoisseur of pleasure, a careful inventory, they were sent to the National Archives. A microfilm was taken that is accessible to the public under the symbol: Medium 185. This is the inventory of the papers presented here.


Ballot, Marie Paul Victor (1853 – 1939) – Born in Martinique and educated in France, he was resident in Porto Novo, 1887 to 1888, 1889 – 1891. He was lieutenant governor of Dahomey from 1891 – 1900 where he played a major role in leading the movement to claim Gourma for France.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Les Papiers de l'abbé J. Rennard et l'histoire religieuse des Antilles françaises (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Les Papiers de l'abbé J. Rennard et l'histoire religieuse des Antilles françaises, Caribbean Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, Jan., 1965, Extrait: p. 62-73.

Disponible en línea.

M. Rennard, qui a longtemps été curé à la Martinique, étudie le passé le religieux de cette île depuis trente ans et plus. Il a vu les registres paroissiaux, les archives des fabriques, il connaît les traditions orales et chaque fois qu'il vient en France, c'est pour courir aux Archives Nationales ou à celles de la rue Oudinot. Il a même poussé jusqu'aux Archives de la Propagande à Rome.


Roughly translated:
“Dr. Rennard, who has long served as pastor in Martinique, studied the religious past of this island for thirty years or more. He saw the church records, factory archives, he knows the oral traditions and every time he comes to France, is to run (to) the National Archives or of Rue Oudinot. He even went to the Archives of the ‘Propagande’ in Rome.”

Profils de Colons.-René Piet, de Niort (1675-1705) (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Profils de colons.-René Piet, de Niort (1675-1705), Bulletin de la Société Historique et Scientifique des Deux-Sèvres, 1ère série tome XII, n° 13, 1er trimestre 1965, p. 490-515.

First few sentences roughly translated:
On peut bien parler d'un petit blanc en parlant de René Piet que nous allons voir par brefs éclairages. Il ne posséda jamais d'esclaves à Saint-Domingue, ni de boutique. A peine loua-t-il un moment un magasin au bord de la rade, au Cap. Il n'eut pas le temps de s'installer vraiment à la colonie, y resta un peu en marge. (…) Mais les années de René Piet à Saint Domingue representent bien la destinée d'une foule d'hommes qui allèrent aux îles chercher la fortune et n'y trouvèrent qu'une difficile aisance ou la misère, des dettes et la mort.

We can talk about a “petit blanc” René Piet we'll soon see for insights. He never possessed slaves in Saint Domingue or shop. Hardly had he rented for a moment a store on the edge of the harbor in Cap [Haitien?]. He had no time to really settle in the colony, stayed a little on the margin. (…) But the years of René Piet in Saint Domingue represent well the destiny of a crowd of men who went to the islands in search of fortune only to find but difficulties to ease poverty, debt and death.

Antilles Françaises Bibliographie (1960-1962)


Debien, Gabriel, Antilles françaises Bibliographie (1960-1962), Escuela de Estudios Hispano Americanos de Sevilla, 1964, Separata del Tomo XX.

Disponible en línea.

Le Révérend Père Adolphe Cabon, historien de Saint-Domingue et de la vie catholique en Haïti (1873-1961) (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Le Révérend Père Adolphe Cabon, historien de Saint-Domingue et de la vie catholique en Haïti (1873-1961), Revue Française d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer, 1961, Extrait p.458-461.

Disponible en línea.

Plantations à la Guadeloupe: la Caféière et la Sucrerie Bologne au Baillif (1787) (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Plantations à la Guadeloupe: la caféière et la sucrerie Bologne au Baillif (1787), Extrait de Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, n° 3 et 4, 1965.

First two sentences roughly translated:
Voici l'inventaire de deux plantations de la Guadeloupe en 1787. C'est l'occasion d'observer leur organisation générale et un peu la vie de leurs esclaves.

Here is the inventory of two plantations in Guadeloupe in 1787. This is an opportunity to observe their general organization and a little life of their slaves.

Les Cases des Esclaves de Plantation (separata)


Debien, Gabriel, Les cases des esclaves de plantation, Extrait de “Conjunction”, Bulletin de l'Institut français de Port-au-Prince, No 101 – Avril 1966.

Indice:
I. Les cases selon les emplois
1. Les cases de domestiques
2. Les cases des ouvriers
3. Case des commandeurs
4. Les “Cases-nègres”

II. L’evolution du logement des esclaves

III. La construction des cases

IV. Les mobiliers des cases


I. The cases according to jobs:
1. Cases of domestics
2. The Cases of the workers
3. Cases of the commanders
4. "Cases of negroes"

II. The evolution of slave housing.

III. Construction of cases.

IV. Movable cases.

Friday, December 26, 2014

De Saint-Domingue à Cuba avec une famille de réfugiés, les Tornézy (1800-1809) (separatas)


Debien, Gabriel, De Saint-Domingue à Cuba avec une famille de réfugiés, les Tornézy (1800-1809), Extrait de la Revue de la Faculté d'Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, No. 8, 1964. (2 copies)

From Saint-Domingue to Cuba with a family of refugees, the Tornézy, (first paragraph roughly translated):
Some letters from the family Tornézy evoke movements and misadventures of a young couple settlers in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and Cuba between 1800 and 1809. These letters are faded and are not numerous; but they are an echo of the years that saw disperse the settlers of Saint-Domingue, some taking refuge in the other islands or the mainland to keep as it could Creole their lifestyle, others definitely returning to France. It's a small world that resists before disappearing.


Quelques lettres venant de la famille Tornézy nous évoquent les mouvements et les mésaventures d'un jeune ménage de colons à Saint Domingue puis à Cuba entre 1800 et 1809. Ces lettres sont sans éclat et ne sont pas nombreuses; mais elles sont un écho des années qui virent se disperser les colons de Saint-Domingue, les uns se réfugiant dans les autres îles ou au continent pour garder autant qu'il se pouvait leur mode de vie créole, les autres rentrant définitivement en France. C'est un petit monde qui résiste avant de disparaître.


L'historien français Gabriel Debien fut le premier à signaler l'activité corsaire des réfugiés de Saint-Domingue à Santiago de Cuba19, où le gouverneur Juan Bautista Vaillant Berthier, arrivé en 1799, veut développer la partie orientale de l'île, les terres étant trois fois moins chères que dans la partie ouest.

Plantations et esclaves à Saint-Domingue: Sucrerie Cottineau & Sucrerie Foäche (2 books)


Debien, Gabriel, Plantations et esclaves à Saint-Domingue: Sucrerie Cottineau, Dakar: Université de Dakar, 1962.

Debien, Gabriel, Plantations et esclaves à Saint-Domingue: Sucrerie Foäche, Dakar: Université de Dakar, 1962.

Rendu de livre (reviewed in) Caribbean Studies © 1962.

Table des chapitres (Sucrerie Cottineau):
I. Une famille de propiétaires coloniaux

II. La sucrerie Cottineau – Esprit sucrier

III. Les gérants

IV. Travaux de construction

V. Les esclaves – Constant déficit humain

VI. La question de l’instruction religieuse des esclaves

VII. Les maladies des esclaves

VIII. Le poison

IX. Marronage et sous-alimentation

X. An temps de la Révolution

Conclusion


Table des chapitres (Sucrerie Foäche):
I. Une maison de commerce du Cap

II. Le site de la plantation – Le rassemblement des terres

III. Premiers problèmes

IV. Vivres et cannes

V. Soucis de gérants

VI. Les esclaves

VII. Au temps de la Révolution

VIII. La ferme de la plantation aux anciens esclaves

IX. Les dernières années

Les Loudunais en Acadie au XVIIe siècle


Debien, Gabriel, Les Loudunais en Acadie au XVIIe siècle, Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, 1963, Extrait: p. 153 – 161. (2 copies)

The Loudunais in Acadia in the seventeenth century, (first paragraph roughly translated):
“Others will speak the language effectively working Ms. Massignon.” There can be no question here of what it brings to us again, and the more accurate it was, on the part Loudonais had played (in) the seventeenth century in the French settlement of Acadia, c 'is to say, the Atlantic coast of Canada, more than 1,000 kilometers from Quebec. "What Canadian scholars have tried to do ... for the French population of the Province of Quebec," Ms. Massignon has tried methodically to the Maritime Provinces, it clarified the correspondence from both sides of the ocean. It seems that one can thus establish the research program.
D'autres parleront pertinemment du travail linguistique de Melle Massignon. Il ne pourra être question ici que de ce qu'elle nous apporte de nouveau, et du plus précis qu'il se pouvait, sur la part qu'ont eue les Loudonais au XVIIe siècle dans le peuplement français de l'Acadie, c'est-à-dire de la côte atlantique du Canada, à plus de 1000 kilometres de Quebec. "Ce que les érudits canadiens ont tente de faire... pour la population française de la Province de Quebec", Melle Massignon l'a essayé méthodiquement pour les Provinces Maritimes, elle a précisé les correspondances de part et d'autre de l'Océan. Il semble que l'on puisse etablir ainsi le programme de ses recherches.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Taxing The Transnationals in the Struggle Over Bauxite


Francis, A. A., Taxing The Transnationals in the Struggle Over Bauxite, The Hague: Institute for Social Studies; Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981.

Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1981.

Contents:
Introduction.

I. Taxation and the Transnational Mining Firm: an Historical Background for the Case of Jamaica.

II. Taxation of the Transnational Firms and Neoclassical Economic Theory: a Critique.

III. Some Recent Research on the Scope for Taxation of the Bauxite/Alumina/Aluminum Industry.

IV. Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analysing Economic Behaviour in the Bauxite/Alumina/Aluminum Industry.

V. Factual Information on the Pricing Behaviour of Firms in the Aluminum Industry.

VI. Modelling the Bauxite/Alumina/Aluminum Industry.

VII. Production, Realising Prices and Profitability in the Bauxite/Alumina/Aluminum Industry Before and After the Bauxite Production Levy.

VIII. The Jamaican Bauxite Production Levy and the Subsequent Bauxite Agreements.

IX. Indexation and the Degree of Monopoly.

X. Summary and Conclusions.

Bibliography.

Black Power in America; Marcus Garvey’s Impact on Jamaica and Africa...


Garvey, Amy Jacques, Black Power in America; Marcus Garvey’s Impact on Jamaica and Africa, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Amy Jacques Garvey, 1968.

Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895[1] – 25 July 1973) was the Jamaican-born second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was one of the pioneering Black women journalists and publishers of the 20th century.


Contents:
1. Introduction

2. Black Power in America

3. Marcus Garvey’s Impact
on Jamaica
and Africa

4. The Power of the Human Spirit

5. Poem – “Looking Back on Garvey”

For More and Better Democracy, for a Democratic Constitution, for Trinidad and Tobago


Pierre, Lennox & John La Rose, For More and Better Democracy, for a Democratic Constitution, for Trinidad and Tobago, [Foreword by Cheddi Jagan], Port-of-Spain: West Indian Independence Party of Trinidad and Tobago, August 1, 1955.

From the Preface:
This pamphlet embodies the views and proposals of the West Indian Independence Party of Trinidad and Tobago on Constitution Advancement for Trinidad and Tobago. The material was originally prepared in the form of a Memorandum, in which form it remains, for the Constitution Reform Committee under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Ashford Sinanan, appointed by Governor Rance following a motion of the Council unanimously agreed to on the 27th November, 1954.

Outlines of a Model of Pure Plantation Economy (separata)


Best, Lloyd, Outlines of a Model of Pure Plantation Economy, Separata from Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, Jamaica: ISER, September 1968.

Extract:
The larger study of which this outline essay forms a part is concerned with the comparative study of economic systems. Following Myrdal and Seers, we have taken the view that economic theory in the underdeveloped regions at any rate, can profit by relaxing its unwitting pre-occupation with the special case of the North Atlantic countries, and by proceeding to a typology of structures each having characteristic laws of motion.

Classifications raciales populaires et métissage: essai d'anthropologie cognitive


Crépeau, Pierre, Classifications raciales populaires et métissage: essai d'anthropologie cognitive, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, 1973.

Extrait:
...Ce travail constitue donc une exploration de la rationalité dialectique des classifications raciales populaires au sein des populations métissées. Le degré de nécessité objective et subjective que comporte cette démarche est celui même de la réalité sociale. Il s'agit d'une nécessité contingente, jamais absolue mais "statistique" variable d'une société à l'autre, et mouvante au sein de la même société.
Nous avons retenu quatre cas pour lesquels nous disposons d'une documentation qui, sans être totalement satisfaisante, offre un support convenable à l'analyse: l'île de Saint-Domingue, la Grande Caïman, le Mexique et le Brésil.


Popular Racial Classifications and Mixing: An Essay in Cognitive Anthropology: ...This work is therefore an exploration of the dialectical rationality of popular racial classifications in the mestizo population. The degree of objective and subjective necessity involved in this approach is that the same social reality. This is a necessity contingent, never absolute but "statistically" variable from one society to another, and moving in the same society. We selected four cases for which we have documented that, while not totally satisfactory, offers a suitable support for the analysis: the island of Santo Domingo, Grand Cayman, Mexico and Brazil.

A propos de la légitimité et de la matrifocalité: Tentative de réinterprétation


Vallée, Lionel, A propos de la légitimité et de la matrifocalité: Tentative de réinterprétation, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, 1965.

Disponible en línea.

Types de plantations et groupes sociaux à la Martinique


Benoist, Jean, Types de plantations et groupes sociaux à la Martinique, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, n/d.

Disponible en línea.

Jean Benoist est médecin et anthropologue. Successivement chef de laboratoire des Instituts Pasteur d'outre-mer, puis professeur à l'université de Montréal et à celle d'Aix-en-Provence, il a travaillé sur les sociétés créoles, en particulier dans les départements d'outre-mer français de la Martinique et de La Réunion, et à l'île Maurice. Il y a étudié les sociétés de plantation et les formes de l'hindouisme implanté dans les îles (Antilles, Mascareignes) par les travailleurs immigrés au XIXe siècle.

La Famille Martiniquaise: Analyse et Dynamique


Dubreuil, Guy, La Famille Martiniquaise: Analyse et Dynamique, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, 1965.

Disponible en línea.

Guy Dubreuil a réalisé ses travaux de recherche dans trois domaines principaux : les études ethniques, l’ethnopsychologie et la psychiatrie transculturelle. Tout au long de sa carrière, il explorera les interfaces de l’anthropologie avec la géographie, la démographie, l’histoire et la sociologie, d’une part, et avec la psychologie, la psychiatrie et la psychanalyse, d’autre part.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

État actuel et perspectives d'avenir des recherches afro-américaines


Bastide, Roger, État actuel et perspectives d'avenir des recherches afro-américaines, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, 1969.

Disponible en línea.

See also Transatlantic Dialogue: Roger Bastide and the African American Religions.

Bibliographie annotée de l'anthropologie physique des Antilles


Clermont, Norman, Bibliographie annotée de l'anthropologie physique des Antilles, Montreal: Centre de recherches caraïbes, 1972.

Búsqueda limitada en Hathitrust.

Annotated Bibliography of Caribbean physical anthropology.

Monday, December 22, 2014

El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba


García Márquez, Gabriel, El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba, Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Era, 1982. (cover detached)

Disponible en línea, (PDF)

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba es una novela corta publicada por el escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez en 1961. Es una de las más célebres de las escritas por el autor, y su protagonista, un viejo coronel que espera la pensión que nunca llega, es considerado como uno de los personajes más entrañables de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX. Fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español «El Mundo».


No One Writes to the Colonel … is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. (…)The novel, written between 1956–1957 and first published in 1961,[1] is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days' War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under martial law. The action opens with the colonel preparing to go to the funeral of a town musician whose death is notable because he was the first to die from natural causes in many years. The novel is set during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial law and censorship prevail.

Ojos de Perro Azul


García Márquez, Gabriel, Ojos de Perro Azul, Barcelona, España: Editorial Bruguera, 1986.

Disponible en línea, (PDF)

De la carpeta del libro:
Estas historias ambientadas en el fabuloso y atormentado mundo interior de los protagonistas, son el reflejo distorsionado pero verosímil de la realidad. Toda la hostilidad del trópico – la sequía, el calor, las grandes lluvias y en definitiva, la muerte – es reelaborada en la conciencia de las patéticas y austeras criaturas que pueblan esa naturaleza y llevada a un nivel de excelente perfección literaria.
Los cuentos de esta selección configuran, además, el primer acercamiento, nebuloso pero absolutamente presente, al mundo mítico del célebre pueblo, que hace su aparición en Isabel viendo llover en Macondo

La Increíble y Triste Historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su Abuela Desalmada


García Márquez, Gabriel, La Increíble y Triste Historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su Abuela Desalmada, Bogotá Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1985.

Disponible en línea, (PDF)

Índice :
Un señor muy Viejo con unas alas enormes (1968)

El mar del tiempo perdido (1961)

El ahogado más hermoso del mundo (1968)

Muerte constante más allá del amor (1970)

El último viaje del buque fantasma (1968)

Blacamán el buen vendedor de milagros (1968)

La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada (1972)


La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su desalmada abuela es una novela corta o cuento largo escrito por Gabriel García Márquez en 1972 y publicado por primera vez en 1978 .


The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Souless Grandmother is a 1972 novella by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. (…)Fourteen-year-old Eréndira is living with her grandmother when she accidentally sets fire to their home. The grandmother forces Eréndira to repay the debt by becoming a prostitute as they travel a road as vagrants. Men line up to enjoy Eréndira's services and eventually, after several years, Ulises, one of her clients, falls in love with her.

Los Funerales de la Mamá Grande


García Márquez, Gabriel, Los Funerales de la Mamá Grande, Barcelona, España: Editorial Bruguera, 1980.

Disponible en línea, (PDF)

Los funerales de la Mamá Grande, escrita en 1962, es una colección de ocho cuentos del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, en la cuál se han recopilado relatos (de 2 o 3 páginas) escritos en estilo peculiar, los cuales nos llevan hacia el mundo de la imaginación y lo irreal.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Revista Montalbán, Núm. 17, (Journal)


Revista Montalbán, [Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación], Núm. 17, 1986.

Índice:
Las Alhajas de los Indios Guajiros en Colombia y Venezuela, por Elisabeth Hermann.

Principios de Compensación y el valor de las personas en la sociedad Guajira, por Benson Saler.

Representaciones musicales como estructuras adaptativas / La música de los bailes ceremoniales de los Arawakos Wakuenai, por Jonathan D. Hill.

Sexualidad y rituales de iniciación entre los indígenas Warekena del Rio Guainía – Rio Negro TFA, por Omar González Ñañez.

Etnología de los Curripaco, una visión general, por Lizardo Domínguez Méndez.

Sobre el tamaño de la población precolombina del TFA y su evolución demográfica, por Miguel A. Perera.

La cacería de los Yekuana bajo una perspectiva ecológica, por Leslie E. Sponsel.

Canciones y bailes del ritual de la Nouara, por Julio Lavandero y Dieter Heinen.

El desarrollo de la antropología urbana en Venezuela, por Luise Margolies.

San Antonio de Tabasca, ¿visión sagrada o secularizada del mundo?, por María Matilde Zubillaga Gabaldón.

La obra lingüística de Theodor Koch-Gruenberg, por Padre W. Schmidt, SVD.

Restos de la tradición hispana en la literatura oral de Trinidad, por Sylvia María Moodie.

El problema de la creación de terminologías científicas y técnicas en las lenguas indígenas venezolanas, por Hugo Obregón M. y Julieta Sánchez Ch.

Ocupación y repartición de tierras indígenas en Nueva Andalucía, Siglo XVI – XVII, por Antoinette da Prato-Perelli.

Revista Montalbán, Núm. 1 (Journal)


Revista Montalbán, [Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación], Núm. 1, 1972.

Índice:
Un capítulo de historia institucional: La Organización Franciscana en América, por Lino Gómez Canedo.

Notas para un estudio de Cesar Vallejo, por Efraín Subero.

Sesenta y cuatro conceptos de la ideología taoísta de Lao-tzu y Chuang-tzu, por Carmelo Elorduy, S.J..

Para una teoría en la crisis en la novela contemporánea, por Domingo Miliani.

Aproximación a tres aproximaciones sabateanas, por Ana María de Rodríguez.

Hacia un pre-historia de la sátira, por Manuel Briceño Jáuregui.

Panorama de estudios afroamericanos, por Angelina Pollak-Eltz.

Vista panorámica de la “Literatura Pemón”, por Fray Cesareo de Armellada.

Para una teoría del artículo en el castellano actual, por Jesús Olza Zubiri.

Introducción a un ensayo biográfico: Don Pedro de Urquinaona y Pardo, por Rafael Batlles.

Sandoval frente a los esclavos negros (1607-1652), por Juan A. Eguren.

Leopoldo Lugones y sus “Lunas”, por Frank Schepmans.

Goya y Picasso: Dos visiones de la guerra, por Santiago Magariños.

Los jesuitas en el Maracaibo colonial, por José del Rey Fajardo.

La viva elegía (1943), por Pedro Francisco Lizardo.

Índice de la Revista “Cosmópolis” (1894-1895), por Carmen C. de Mayz.

La literatura venezolana en 1971, por R.J. Lovera de Sola.

Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 38 (Journal)


Social and Economic Studies, [A Special Issue In Honour of Alister McIntyre], Vol. 38, No. 2, Jamaica: ISER, June 1989.

Contents:
Caribbean Perspectives of Alister McIntyre, by V.A. Salter.

Alister McIntyre and North – South Relations, by Vishnu Persaud.

Alister McIntyre and Caribbean Political Economy, by William Demas.

Developing Centres of Excellence through Norht/south Linkages in Higher Education, by J. Edward Greene.

Inequality in Plural Societies: An Exploration, by Ralph M. Henry.

Technology and Change in the Caribbean: Formulating Strategic Responses, by Norman P. Girvan.

Foreign Currency Black Markets: Lessons from Guyana, by Clive Y. Thomas.

Econometric Modelling: A Methodological Interlude, by Hyginus Leon.

Trade Flows and Economic Integration among LDCs of the Caribbean Basin, by Francisco E. Thoumi.

Cultural Identity and the Arts – New Horizons for Caribbean Social Science?, by Rex Nettleford.

Some Fundamentals of Monetary Policy in the Caribbean, by Compton Bourne.

Notes and Comments.

Socio-Economic Determinants of Health Status, by Elsie LeFranc.

BOOK REVIEWS

Brian L. Moore, “Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana After Slavery, 1838 – 1891”, reviewed by K.O. Laurence.
Raymond T. Smith, “Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana”, reviewed by Dorian Powell.
Adrian Wood, “Global Trends in Real Exchange Rates, 1960 – 1984”, reviewed by Leroy Taylor.
Charles V. Carnegie, (ed.), “Afro-Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective”, reviewed by Michel-Rolph Trouillot.
Y. Ghai, R. Luckman & F. Snyder, (eds.), “The Political Economy of Law: A Third World Reader”, reviewed by Ralph Premdas.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Guatemala--Another Vietnam?


Melville, Thomas & Marjorie, Guatemala--another Vietnam?, Middlesex England: Penguin, 1971.

From the Editorial Foreword:
This is the story told by the Melvilles. It is of the first importance, not just for Guatemala, but also for all Latin America – where land reform remains the key to breaking the power of the continent’s oligarchic social structure. And of course the Melville’s story has a familiar ring, as the title suggests. In South Vietnam, in the areas liberated before 1954, the Viet Minh put through a land reform that expropriated the landlords. After 1954, when the Viet Minh withdrew, the government of Ngo Dinh Diem returned the land to the landlords. In this fertile soil, revolts grow. So too, in Guatemala, the land reform of Arbenz, once put into reverse, created conditions for rebellion.


See also the Catonsville Nine.

The Jamaican Historical Review, 1966 (Journal)


The Jamaican Historical Review, Vol. VI, Nos. 1 & 2, 1966.

Contents:
Les Marrons de Saint-Domingue en 1764, by Gabriel Debien.

Port Royal 1655 – 1725, by Dr. D. J. Buisseret.

The Civil Commission of 1802: An Account and an Explanation of an Issue in the Early Constitutional and Political History of Trinidad, by J. Millette.

Medioambiente y Adaptación Humana en la Prehistoria de Santo Domingo


Veloz Maggiolo, Marcio, Medioambiente y Adaptación Humana en la Prehistoria de Santo Domingo, Tomo I, Santo Domingo: Ediciones de Taller, 1976.

Búsqueda limitada en Hathitrust.

Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (nacido el 13 de agosto de 1936 en Santo Domingo) es un escritor, arqueólogo y antropólogo dominicano. Autor prolífico, tanto de temas académicos como literarios, ha sido traducido al alemán, inglés, italiano y francés..


Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (born August 13, 1936 in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican writer, archaeologist and anthropologist. A prolific author of both academic and literary themes, his works have been translated into German, English, Italian and French. His maternal great-great-grandfather, Juan Bautista Maggiolo, was a Genovese naval captain who co-founded the Navy of the Dominican Republic with the also Genovese-born Juan Bautista Cambiaso and the Dominican Juan Alejandro Acosta.

The Defeat of John Hawkins: A Biography of his Third Slaving Voyage


Unwin, Rayner, The Defeat of John Hawkins: a biography of his third slaving voyage, London: Allen & Unwin, 1960.

Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder, pirate and slave trader. He was considered the first English trader to profit from the Triangle Trade, based on selling supplies to colonies ill-supplied by their home countries, and their demand for African slaves in the Spanish colonies of Santo Domingo and Venezuela in the late 16th century. He styled himself "Captain General" as the General of both his own flotilla's of ships and those of the English Royal Navy and to distinguish himself from those Admirals that served only in the administrative sense and were not military in nature. His death and that of his cousin and mentee, Sir Francis Drake heralded the decline of the Royal Navy for decades before its recovery and eventual dominance again helped by the propaganda of the Navy's glory days under his leadership.

Balboa of Darién: Discoverer of the Pacific


Romoli, Kathleen, Balboa of Darién: discoverer of the Pacific, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1953.

See also Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519[1]) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World. He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién in present-day Panama in 1510, which was the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas (a settlement by Alonso de Ojeda the previous year at San Sebastián de Urabá had already been abandoned).

El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera


García Márquez, Gabriel, El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, Diciembre 1985.

El amor en los tiempos del cólera es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, publicada en 1985. Narra la vida de tres personajes entre finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX en Cartagena de Indias. La novela está basada en la forma en que se desarrolló la relación de los padres de García Márquez. Para escribirla se entrevistó durante varios días con sus padres, cada uno por separado, para encontrar más detalles de como iba a escribir la novela.


Love in the Time of Cholera … is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Monthly Review, September, 1965 (Journal)


Monthly Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, September, 1965.

Contents:
Review of the Month: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Dominican Republic.

Imperialism in the Dominican Republic, by Vincent Girbau Leon.

Socialism and the Market, by Maurice Dobb, Charles Bettelheim, and a specialist.

Job Discrimination in the South, by David Michaels.

World Events, by Scott Nearing.

Books: China: A Spanish View, by Keith Buchanan.

Estudios Sociales, Octubre-Diciembre 1972 (Journal)


Estudios Sociales, Año V, No. 4, Octubre-Diciembre 1972.

Revista de información y orientación social. Publicada en el Centro de Investigación y Acción Social de la Compañía de Jesús. Avenida Independencia 50, Santo Domingo República Dominicana. Director Francisco Guzmán Venet.


Sumario:
Una Revolución Social analizada en Laboratorio; Reflexión Metodológica, por José L. Alemán.

Una Revolución Social analizada en Laboratorio, por Juan Ml Pérez.

Estudio sobre Cien Casos de Prostitución en Santiago de los Caballeros (Tercera y última parte), por Lic. Gregorio Lanz.

Actitudes Religiosas de los Maestros Primarios del Departamento Escolar de Montecristi, por Lic. Ricardo Rodríguez.

Datos Estadísticos de Tierras.

Resumen de las Recientes Leyes Agrarias Dominicanas.

Estudios Sociales, Julio-Septiembre 1972 (Journal)


Estudios Sociales, Año V, No. 3, Julio-Septiembre 1972.

Revista de información y orientación social. Publicada en el Centro de Investigación y Acción Social de la Compañía de Jesús. Avenida Independencia 50, Santo Domingo República Dominicana. Director Francisco Guzmán Venet.


Sumario:
El Negocio de la Prostitución en Santiago, por Lic. Gregorio Lanz.

Estudio Poblacional de la Comunidad de Juma-Bonao, por Lic. Gilberto de la Rosa R.

El Machismo Criollo, por Dra. Antonia Ramírez.

Estudio sobre Cien Casos de Prostitución en Santiago de los Caballeros (Segunda Parte), por Lic. Gregorio Lanz.

Libros.

Estudios Sociales, Abril-Junio 1971 (Journal)


Estudios Sociales, Año IV, No. 2, Abril-Junio 1971.

Revista de información y orientación social. Publicada en el Centro de Investigación y Acción Social de la Compañía de Jesús. Avenida Independencia 50, Santo Domingo Republica Dominicana. Director Francisco Guzmán Venet.


Sumario:
Políticas de Control Poblacional en República Dominicana, por Manuel M. Ortega

Introducción.

Capitulo Primero: Dinámica Poblacional Dominicana: Un Bosquejo Estadístico.

Capitulo Segundo: Política de Control Poblacional y Programas de Planificación Familiar hasta 1967.

Capitulo Tercero: Política de Control Poblacional y Programas de Planificación Familiar hasta 1968.

Capitulo Cuarto: Un Ensayo de Evaluación.

Apéndice Bibliográfico.

Una Investigación sobre los Profesores de Secundaria del Interior, por José L. Alemán.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Cibao, Narraciones


Hernández Franco, Tomás, Cibao, Narraciones, Ilustraciones de Colson, Ciudad Trujillo: Impresora Dominicana C por A, 1951.

Tomás Hernández Franco. Poeta, cuentista, ensayista, orador, periodista y diplomático. De temperamento bohemio y espíritu aventurero, nació en Tamboril (llamado en ese entonces Peña) en la provincia de Santiago, el 29 de abril de 1904. (…) Fue en El Salvador, mientras desempeñaba un cargo diplomático, donde el 18 de diciembre de 1942 publicó Yelidá en Ediciones Sargazo, en una edición privada de 100 ejemplares numerados realizada en los Talleres Gráficos Cisneros. Allí publicó también la conferencia Apuntes sobre poesía popular y poesía negra en las Antillas. Su labor periodística se inicia antes de los 15 años en el diario La Información, órgano en el que aparte de redactor, tanto en Santiago como en París, llegó a compartir su dirección con los entonces escritores Rafael César Tolentino y Joaquín Balaguer.

Historia Nueva (Journal)


Historia Nueva, Año V, No. 15, Julio 1960.

Contenido:
Nuestro Panorama.

Correspondencia: El franquismo es un mundo en crisis.

Rueda del Mundo.

Crónica Política de México: Revolución y Contrarrevolución.

Los recientes sucesos de España y la infamante ejecución de Antonio Abad Donoso: extracto de las declaraciones hechas a los periodistas por el Dr. Joaquín D. Harcourt, Presidente del Ateneo Español de México, en la conferencia de prensa en la que denuncio uno de los más abominables de los recientes crímenes del franquismo.

Cuba, Estados Unidos y la verdadera cuestión, por César Falcón.

Nueva política comunista: Las concepciones de Togliatti y su proyección en nuestros países.

Alemania Occidental debe ser totalmente desarmada, por Bernard Lavargne.

Nuestro entrañable Lenin, por Anatoli Lunacharski.

Los Balcanes y Adriático, Zona de Paz, por Luciano Mencaraglia.

Revista de libros: Transformar la Tierra, por Pierre Cazenave.

XIth International Congress of Historical Sciences


Congress of Historical Sciences, XIth International Congress of Historical Sciences; Last Minutes News; List of Members, Stockholm, 21 – 28 VIII, 1960.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Boletim do Centro Latino-Americano de Pesquisas em Ciências Sociais (Journal)


Boletim do Centro Latino-Americano de Pesquisas em Ciências Sociais, Ano V No. 1 - 2 Janeiro - Junho 1962.

Contenido:
Comunidades Rurais No Haiti – Maurice A. Lubin.

Negros no Paraguai – Paulo de Carvalho Neto.

Exodo Rural – Moisés Poblete Troncoso (ver Sergio Poblete).

Panorama Econômico e Social da América Latina.

Historic Site Preservation in the Caribbean: A Status Report


Towle, Judith A., Historic Site Preservation in the Caribbean: A Status Report, St. Thomas USVI: Island Resources Foundation, 1978.

See also Island Resources Foundation.

From the introduction:
This publication was originally issued as a final report for a segment of an American Revolution Bicentennial project funded jointly by the Island Resources Foundation, the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. As initiated and coordinated by the Foundation, the project effort, entitled “The Caribbean and the American Revolution”, was designed to complete a preliminary inventory of Caribbean historic sites, with the majority of the sites surveyed dating from the eighteenth century and, specifically, the era of the American Revolution.

Dominica Citizen's Guide


MCL Publications, Dominica Citizen's Guide, Dominica: MCL Publications, 1978.

Dominica …, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of 1,447 metres (4,747 ft). The Commonwealth of Dominica had a population of 72,301 at the 2014 Census. The capital is Roseau which is located on the leeward side of the island.

"Operation Bootstrap" in Puerto Rico: Report of Progress


Chase, Stuart, "Operation Bootstrap" in Puerto Rico: Report of Progress, Washington DC: National Planning Association, 1951.

This study by Stuart Chase was undertaken on the initiative of the National Planning Association under the sponsorship of its Business Committee on National Policy. Funds required for the study were provided by the Economic Development Administration of the Puerto Rican Government on the request of the National Planning Association.

Tax and Trade Guide Puerto Rico


Arthur Andersen & Co., Tax and Trade Guide Puerto Rico, Arthur Andersen, 1964.

From the Introduction:
This guide presents the fundamentals of the tax and trade laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to aid the businessman and his adviser who seek information on doing business there.

The Voyage of the Niña II


Marx Robert F., The Voyage of the Niña II, Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1963.

Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean


Girvan, Norman, & Owen Jefferson, (Eds.) Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean, Kingston: New World Group, 1971.

Reviewed in Caribbean Studies © 1973.
Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1973.

From the introduction:
The nineteen articles reprinted in this volume are drawn mainly from New World Publications, and represent broadly the “new school” of political economy to emerge in the English –speaking Caribbean in the decade of the 1960’s. To appreciate their significance it is necessary to locate them in the context of the political, economic and intellectual developments of the region.


Contents:
INTRODUCTION

Part One: THE CARIBBEAN ECONOMY
1. Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom, by Lloyd Best.
2. Size and Survival, by Lloyd Best.

Part Two: PLANTATIONS AND CORPORATIONS
3. Sugar, Our Life or Death?, by Havelock Brewster.
4. Sugar and Change, by George Beckford, Havelock Brewster, Robert Kirkwood, G. Arthur Brown, Clive Thomas, Orlando Patterson & Wilmot Perkins.
5. Issues in the Windward Islands-Jamaica ‘Banana War’, by George Beckford.
6. Corporate v. Caribbean Integration, by Norman Girvan & Owen Jefferson.

Part Three: CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES
7. Dependence as an Obstacle to Growth in Puerto Rico, by Eduardo Seda-Bonilla.
8. Jamaica’s Post-War Economic Development, by Owen Jefferson.
9. Trinidad’s Post-War Economy, 1945-1950, by Edwin Carrington.
10. Industrialization by Invitation in Trinidad Since 1950, by Edwin Carrington.

Part Four: POLICY ISSUES AND PROPOSALS
11. Imperial Monetary Arrangements and the Caribbean, by Clive Thomas.
12. Devaluation and Dependence, by University of the West Indies Economics.
13. Caribbean Economic Community, by Alister McIntyre.
14. Restructuring the Trinidad Economy, by Selwyn Ryan.
15. Planning and Economic Development in Guyana, by Havelock Brewster.
16. Measuring Economic Progress, by Owen Jefferson.
17. Why We Need to Nationalize Bauxite, and How, by Norman Girvan.
18. The Long Term Economic, Political and Cultural Programme for Guyana, by New World Associates.
19. Unemployment in Jamaica, by Norman Girvan, et.al.

Las Ánimas Milagrosas En Venezuela


Pollak-Eltz, Angelina, Las Ánimas Milagrosas En Venezuela, Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 1989.

De la introducción:
Este trabajo se refiere a la religiosidad popular en Venezuela, en particular a la devoción a los “santos populares”, “animas” o “muertos milagrosos”, que hasta ahora no fue estudiada por folkloristas o antropólogos. Se trata de santos no reconocidos por la Iglesia Católica, canonizados espontáneamente por el pueblo. Encontramos la devoción a “animas” en todas partes de la república, especialmente en los Andes y en los Llanos, pero también en Caracas y las otras grandes ciudades.

Quiroga, A Mexican Municipio


Brand, Donald D., Quiroga, a Mexican municipio, Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951.

Available online.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1951.

Brand, Donald Dilworth (Don) (1905-1984) American cultural geographer. Born in Chiclayo, Peru, Donald Brand earned his PhD in anthropology in 1933 from the University of California, Berkeley, for his work on the prehistoric settlements of Sonora in northwestern Mexico.

Encounter (journal)


Spender, Stephen, Melvin J. Lasky (Eds.), Encounter, Vol. XXII, No. 2, February 1964.

See also THIS.

Contains Fidel Castro’s Dilemma, Letter from Cuba by Ernst Halperin from pages 57 to 66, under “Notes & Topics”.

The United States As Seen By Spanish American Writers, 1776-1890


De Onís, José, The United States as seen by Spanish American writers, 1776-1890, New York : Hispanic Institute in the United States, 1952.

Available online.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652


Darnell Davis, Nicholas, The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652, Georgetown, British Guiana: "Argosy" Press, 1887. [fragile]

Available at Forgotten Books.

From the author’s Foreword:
Nicholas Darnell Davis (1846-1915) was born in Grenada, and spent brief periods in Mauritius and Sierra Leone, but his main public career was in British Guiana [Guyana], where he served as Postmaster General (1876-1881), Comptroller of Customs (1881-1895), and Auditor-General (1895-1908). Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana, Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health.


Contents:
1) Declaring for the King in Little England.
2) Westward Ho.
3) Colonizing in the Olden Times.
4) Rival Claims to Barbados.
5) Growth of the Colony.
6) ‘Far Barbados on the Western Main’.
7) Troubles in Old England.
8) Troubles in Little England.
9) Lord Willoughby’s Arrival at Barbados.
10) The Commonwealth and the Colonies.
11) A Declaration of Independence.
12) The Blockade of Barbados.
13) Colonel Modiford Proclaimed a Traitor.
14) Capitulation of the Cavaliers.

Trinidad en el Siglo XVII


Morales Padrón, Francisco, Trinidad en el Siglo XVII, Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1958. (Fue firmado por el autor, con saludo al Dr. Mathews)

Francisco Morales Padrón (Gran Canaria, 1924 - Sevilla, 2010) fue un historiador español natural de Santa Brígida (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) especializado en el descubrimiento de América por la Universidad de Sevilla de gran reconocimiento que dedicó sus obras a la ciudad que le acogió, Sevilla.

Le Commerce de l'épicerie à travers les âges


William, Germain, Le Commerce de l'épicerie à travers les âges: Conférence donnée ler septembre 1965 à la section guadeloupéenne du Centre des jeunes patrons, honorée d’une souscription des Chambres de Commerce et d’Industrie de Pointe-à-Pitre et de Basse-Terre.[deux exemplaires]

Excerpt:
L'Epicerie ne s'est, à aucune époque, arrêtée à la seule vente des épices. Les épiciers du Moyen Age étaient apothicaires, ciriers, confiseur, confituriers et ne vendaient qu'en gros. Le petit détaillant ou Regrattier vendait le pain, le fromage, les oignons, l'ail, les oeufs, la volaille, etc.

Actuellement, le commerce de l'épiciers s'est transformé: Il renferme l'alimentation générale, des produits ménagers de consommation courante, la boucherie, la boulangerie, la quincaillerie, etc.

Mais si vous les voulez bien, faisons en raccourci un voyage historique et voyons comment se pratiquait le commerce des épices dans l'antiquite.
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De 1643 à 1759, Basse-Terre est le plus grand centre de l'activité commerciale de la Guadeloupe, après le Moule et Sainte-Anne. Elle perd de son importance vers 1763, dès fondation de la ville de Pointe-à-Pitre, qui, "par le sécurité de son port, devient la rade la plus fréquentée des Antilles."

Baka


Augustus, Earl, Winston Moore, & Winston Rennie, Eds., Baka, Port-of-Spain: Gambage Associates, 1968.

From the introduction:
“Baka” is the second of a series in three books designed to project a vision of possibilities of meaning in what is loosely called “folklore”.
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Perhaps the methodology of the book may be summed up in Sparrow’s significant comment to CLR James which James noted in “Party Politics in the West Indies”, known also as “P.N.M. Go Forward.” With slight emendation, Sparrow’s thoughts may be spelled out as follows: “If the words are wrong then the music is wrong. If the music is wrong then the words are wrong.”

Letters from Monville


Hall, Douglas, Letters from Monville, Jamaica: Ministry of Education, Publications Branch, 1965.

From the introduction:
In eleven letters this book tells the story of Jamaica as it was in 1842, a few years after the slaves had all become free men and women. In the first letter, James Capple, a Member of Parliament in England, asks his young nephew, Thomas, to visit Jamaica and find out what things are like on his sugar estate in St. Ann, and in other parts of the island. All the other ten letters are written by Thomas to his uncle and aunt telling them what he is doing in Jamaica and what he has discovered here.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Western Design: An Account of Cromwell’s Expedition to the Caribbean


Taylor, S. A. G., The Western Design: An Account of Cromwell’s Expedition to the Caribbean, Kingston: Institute of Jamaica and the Jamaica Historical Society, 1965.

The Anglo–Spanish War was a conflict between the English Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell and Spain, between 1654 and 1660. It was caused by commercial rivalry. Each side attacked the other's commercial and colonial interests in various ways such as privateering and naval expeditions. In 1655, an English amphibious expedition invaded Spanish territory in the Caribbean. The major land actions took place in the Spanish Netherlands. In 1657, England formed an alliance with France, merging the Anglo–Spanish war with the larger Franco–Spanish War.

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Jamaica was the casus belli that resulted in the actual Anglo-Spanish War in 1655.[5] Weakened by fever, the English force then sailed west for the Colony of Santiago (present day Jamaica), the only Spanish West Indies island that did not have new defensive works. They landed in May 1655 at a place called Santiago de la Vega, now Spanish Town. They came, and they stayed, in the face of prolonged local resistance that was reinforced by troops sent from Spain and New Spain (México). In 1657 the English Governor invited the Buccaneers to base themselves at Port Royal on Santiago, to deter the Spanish from recapturing the island. For England, Jamaica was to be the 'dagger pointed at the heart of the Spanish Empire,' although in fact it was a possession of little value then.[4] Cromwell, despite all difficulties, was determined that the presence should remain, sending reinforcements and supplies. New Spanish troops sailing from Cuba, lost the Battle of Ocho Rios in 1657 and the Battle of Rio Nuevo in 1658, failing in their attempts to retake Jamaica.

The Cradle of Colonialism


Masselman, George, The Cradle of Colonialism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.

Available at Questia.

Reviewed in Journal of Southeast Asian History © 1966.

Reviewed in The Journal of Economic History © 1964.

Reviewed in The William and Mary Quarterly © 1965.

From the cover:
During the first three decades of the seventeenth century, the Dutch rose to a position of pre-eminence in the European exploitation of Southeast Asia. Mr. Masselman gives a graphic account of that rise from the building of the Holland dikes and the earliest Dutch efforts toward sea power to the consolidation of the influence of the United East India Company in the Indonesian Archipelago. The duels with England, Portugal, and Spain for control of the sea and trade, the exploration of sea routes to the Far East, the background history of Indonesia, and the birth there of capitalistic colonialism, are all examined. The dealings of the Dutch sailors and merchants who determined the character of early colonial policy and the documents on which their history is based are given more detailed treatment than has hitherto been available in English.

Monday, October 13, 2014

Labour Policies in the West Indies


International Labour Organization, Labour Policies in the West Indies, Geneva: ILO, 1952.

Contents:
Introduction

Chapter I: Pre-War Economic and Social Background.
Economic Factors
Social Factors
Conclusion

Chapter II: Wartime and Post – War Trends.
Regional Cooperation – The Caribbean Commission
Altering Patterns of Economic Policy
Wartime and Post-War Economic Changes
Expansion of Social Services
Political Organisation

Chapter III: Manpower.
General Government Policies
Extent of the Employment Problem
Action Against Unemployment

Chapter IV: The Machinery of Industrial Relations.
British Territories
United States Territories
French Territories
Netherlands Territories

Chapter V: Wages, Hours and Conditions of Work.
British Territories
United States Territories
French Territories
Netherlands Territories

Chapter VI: Women, Children and Young Persons.
Children and Young Persons
Women

Chapter VII: Social Security and Related Provisions.
French Territories
British, United States and Netherlands Territories
Planning and Prospects

Chapter VIII: Labour Legislation.
British Territories
United States Territories
French Territories
Netherlands Territories

Chapter IX: West Indian Labour Problems and the I.L.O.
Some Major Problems of Labour Policy in the West Indies
Some Aspects of the Application of International Labour Conventions to the West Indian Territories
The International Labour Organisation and the West Indies

Appendices:

I. Area and Population of West Indian Territories.

II. Labour Force of British West Indian Territories at Latest Census.

III. Puerto Rico: Civilian Population 14 Years of Age and Over, by Employment Status and Sex.

IV. Jamaica: Data Regarding Wage Earners and Gainfully Occupied Population.

V. Jamaica Sugar Industry: Underemployment and Seasonal Unemployment.

VI. Jamaica: Labour Union Organisation and Assets.

VII. Jamaica: Distribution of Organised Labour according to Major Industries in March 1948.

VIII. Jamaica: Industrial Disputes Involving Stoppage of Work according to Industry.

IX. Puerto Rico: Wage orders Issued by the Minimum Wage Board up to November 1949.

X. Jamaica: Employment, Working Hours and Wages in Selected Industries in the Kingston Area.

XI. Jamaica: Wage Rates and Hours in Principal Industries, 1950.

XII. Trinidad: Wages.

XIII. Puerto Rico: Average Hourly Wages by Industries, Fiscal Years 1934 – 1935 to August 1949.
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Anuario de Estudios Americanos XXX (Sevilla)


Anuario de Estudios Americanos, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, Año 1973, Número 30.

Ver Archivo del Anuario de Estudios Americanos.

Índice:
Las Defensas del Golfo de Cádiz en la Edad Moderna, por José Antonio Calderón Quijano
El Puerto y Camino de Carare en Nueva Granada, por María Ángeles Eugenio Martínez
Notas Sobre el Hospital del Amor de Dios de México en el Siglo XVI, por María Justina Sarabia Viejo
Notas al Episcopologio Paraguayo, por José Luis Mora Mérida
Los Diarios Anónimos Sobre el Ataque de Vernon a Cartagena Existentes en Colombia: Su Correlación y Posibles Autores, por Manuel Lucena Salmoral
La Procedencia de los Capitales en la Industria Naviera Catalana del Siglo XVIII: Los Barcos del Comercio Atlántico (1744 – 1752), por Carlos Martínez Shaw
La Ciudad de Santiago de Querétaro a Fines del Siglo XVIII: Apuntes para su Historia Urbana, por Ramón María Serrera Contreras
Los Asientos Portugueses y el Contrabando de Negros, por Enriqueta Vila Villar
Las Ordenanzas de 1596 para la Audiencia de Filipinas, por Fernando Muro Romero
La Casa de Contratación de Sevilla (Algunos Aspectos de su Historia), por Juana Gil Bermejo García
Un Italo – Nicaragüense del Siglo XIX: Fabio Carnevalini, por Franco Cerutti
La Búsqueda del Paraíso y las Legendarias Islas del Atlántico, por Louis – André Vigneras

Men in the Tropics; a Colonial Anthology


Evans, Harold, Ed., Men in the Tropics; a Colonial Anthology, London: William Hodge & Company, 1949.

Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born 28 June 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. In 1984 he moved to the United States, where he had leading positions in journalism with US News and World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Daily News. In 1986 he founded Conde Nast Traveler. He has written various books on history and journalism, with his The American Century (1998) receiving particular acclaim. In 2000, he retired from leadership positions in journalism to spend more time on his writing. Since 2001, Evans has served as editor-at-large of The Week Magazine and since 2005, he has been a contributor to The Guardian and BBC Radio 4.


Contents:
Preface

Part One: West Africa (The Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone).

Part Two: The Caribbean (British Guiana, British Honduras, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, the Bahamas, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands).

Part Three: East Africa (Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar).

Part Four: The Malay Archipelago (The Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo, and Brunei).

Part Five: The Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and the Solomon Islands).

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Whither Latin America?


Fuentes, Carlos, et. al., Whither Latin America?, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1963.

Contents:
Foreword

The Argument of Latin America: Words for the North Americans, by Carlos Fuentes.

The Plundered Continent, by Paul Johnson.

The Coming Latin American Revolution, by A Traveling Observer.

Which Way for Latin America?, by Leo Huberman.

The Varieties of Land Reform, by Andre Gunder Frank.

A Great American, by Paul M. Sweezy.

Mexico: The Janus Faces of 20th Century Bourgeois Revolution, by Andre Gunder Frank.

Venezuela: A Study in Imperialism, by Harvey O’Connor.

Brazil, A Christian Country, by Francisco Juliao.

Andes and Sierra Maestra, by Sebastian Salazar Bondy.

Report from Ecuador, by Manuel Agustin Aguirre.

Notes on Latin America, by Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman.

Latin American Politics and Development


Wiarda, Howard J. & Harvey F. Kline, Eds., Latin American Politics and Development, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. (two copies)

Reviewed in Latin American Research Review © 1985.

Howard J. Wiarda is the Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Founding Head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C..
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Latin America: A Descriptive Survey


Schurz, William Lytle, Latin America: A Descriptive Survey, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949.

Reviewed in The American Economic Review © 1942.

Reviewed in The Journal of Negro Education © 1942.

Economic historian William Lytle Schurz taught at a number of academic institutions, including the University of California, of Wyoming, and of Michigan, as well as the American Institute for Foreign Trade, where he served as president in 1950. He also worked in a variety of US government positions, such as commercial attaché to Brazil during the Hoover administration and as chief of training at the Social Security Board under President Franklin Roosevelt. In addition to The Manila Galleon, his 1939 landmark study on the Spanish empire's trans-Pacific commerce, he is best known for his works on Latin American history, such as, Brazil: The Infinite Country and Latin America: A Descriptive Survey.
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An Outline of Latin American Economic Development


Wythe, George, An Outline of Latin American Economic Development, (College Outline Series), New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1946.

From the Preface:
The book is the outgrowth of lectures at The American university of Washington D.C., on the economic problems of Latin America. (…) Latin American economic development is here outlined on a topical basis rather than from the standpoint of the peculiarities of the economies of the twenty distinct republics. The author’s experience has been that this approach gives the student a better orientation and enables him to take up more3 intelligent advanced studies or investigations in connection with individual countries or specific problems. The book consists of an Introduction and four Parts. The Introduction aims to define the over-all position of Latin America in world economy. Part I is devoted to several basic concepts, such as the physical setting, population problems, and the general characteristics of economic development in Latin America. Part II takes up the major economic activities: agriculture; the mineral, forest, pastoral and manufacturing industries; transportation and communications; and credit unions. Part III is devoted to foreign commerce, its volume, composition, and direction, with special reference to the outlook and the possibilities of, and limitations on, the development of larger inter-American trade. In Part IV the evolution of a Pan-American commercial policy is outlined.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record 1981 - 82


Hopkins, Jack W. (ed.), Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record 1981 - 82, Volume 1, New York & London: Holmes & Meier, 1981.

Complete set reviewed in Latin American Research Review © 1994.

Contents:
Part One – Current Issues: Essays

The Year in Perspective, by Jack W. Hopkins.
The Inter-American System, by Lars Schoultz.
U.S. National Security Interests in Latin America: The Region in Global Context, by Margaret Daly Hayes.
Arms Control in Latin America, by Victor Millan & Michael A. Morris.
The Reorientation of U.S. Policy toward Latin America, by G. Pope Atkins.
The Economic and Business Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, by Rosemary H. Werrett.
The External Debt of Latin America, by Nicholas Bruck.
U.S. Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Nicholas Bruck.
U.S. Policy toward the Caribbean, by Robert A. Pastor.
Reagan and the Caribbean: Too Little Too Late – or Too Much Too Forcefully?, by Marvin Will.
Changes in the English-Speaking Caribbean, by Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner.
Central America: Regional and International Aspects, by Richard Millett.
A Profile of United States-Mexican Relations, by Steven E. Sanderson.
Mexican-United States Border and Immigration Problems, by Marvin Alisky.
Mexican Oil, by George W. Grayson.
Political Reform and Political Change in Mexico, by Kevin J. Middlebrook.
Implementation of the Panama Canal Treaties, by John P. Augelli.
Current Development Efforts in the Amazon Basin, by Emilio F. Moran.
Andean Pact: From the Common Market to the Integration System, by Gordon Mace.
Church-State Relations, by Thomas G. Sanders.
Spain and Latin America, by Victor Alba.

Part Two – Country by Country Review

South America:
Argentina, by Carlos A. Astiz.
Bolivia, by Melvin Burke & Eileen Keremitsis.
Brazil, by Riordan Roett.
Chile, by Jorge Heine.
Colombia, by Harvey F. Kline.
Ecuador, by John D. Martz.
French Guiana, by Dorothy Sokol & Edward M. Dew.
Guyana, by William Ratliff
Panama, by Neale J. Pearson.
Paraguay, by Paul H. Lewis.
Peru, by David Scott Palmer.
Suriname, by Edward M. Dew.
Uruguay, by Ronald H. Mc Donald.
Venezuela, by Joh D. Martz.
Central America and Mexico:
Belize, by Alma H. Young.
Costa Rica, by Mitchell A. Seligson.
El Salvador, by Mark B. Rosenberg.
Guatemala, by Robert L. Peterson.
Honduras, by Neale J. Pearson.
Mexico, by John J. Bailey.
Nicaragua, by James nelson Goodsell.
The Caribbean:
Antigua and Barbuda, by Jack W. Hopkins.
The Bahamas, by Dean W. Collinwood.
Barbados, by W. Marvin Will.
British Colonies and Associated States, by Jack W. Hopkins
Cuba, by Enrique A. Baloyra.
Dominica, by Rosemary Brana-Shute & Gary Brana-Shute.
The Dominican Republic, by Howard J. Wiarda & Michael J. Kryzanek
French Antilles, by Albert Gastmann.
Grenada, by Jacqueline A. Braveboy Wagner.
Haiti, by Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor.
Jamaica, by Locksley Edmondson.
Netherlands Antilles, by Albert Gastmann.
Puerto Rico, by Thomas G. Mathews.
St. Lucia, by Rosemary Brana-Shute & Gary Brana-Shute.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, by Rosemary Brana-Shute & Gary Brana-Shute.
Trinidad & Tobago, by Jacqueline A. Braveboy Wagner.
The United States Virgin Islands, by Klaus de Albuquerque & Jerome L. McElroy.

Part Three – Documents: 1981 – 1982

Energy Cooperation Program of August 3, 1980.
Inter-American Convention on Extradition.
Treaty of Montevideo 1980.
Heads of Agreement.
Government Explains the Heads of Agreement.
Declaration of Belém.
Joint Communiqué of Conference of Ministers on Caribbean Basin Development.
Treaty of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
Treaty Establishing the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
Letter from the Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations.
Joint Franco-American Declaration on El Salvador.
Communiqué Against French-Mexican Declaration.
Cancun Summit/International Meeting on Cooperation and Development (22-23 October 1981)
Treaty of Tlatelolco; Additional Protocol I.
Additional Protocol I to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
U.S. Senate Understanding on Additional Protocol I.
Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig’s Address to the OAS General Assembly, St. Lucia, December 4, 1981.
Caribbean Basin Initiative; President Reagan’s Address to the OAS, February 25, 1982.
The Constitution of Belize.

Part Four – Economic, Social, and Political Data.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Caribbean Journal of Education, January 1979


Caribbean Journal of Education, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1979.

Contents:
Establishing a Public Elementary School System for Slaves in the Danish Virgin Islands 1732 – 1846, by N.A.T. Hall.

Teaching as Decision Making, by John Martin.

Producing Media Software: A Slides-With-Commentary Presentation, by Michael Morrissey.

Democratization of Education: Teacher and Student Participation in Curriculum Decision-Making – A Model for Curriculum Management in Secondary Schools in the West Indies, by Zellyne D. Jennings-Wray.

Notes on Contributors.


The Caribbean Journal of Education (CJE), published twice annually by the School of Education, University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to covering all aspects of education affecting the Caribbean, from the early childhood to the tertiary level. Founded in 1974, CJE has always focused on giving voice to the concerns of the region. Education specialists and stakeholders, scholars, researchers, practitioners, policy makers are invited to submit scholarly papers on any aspect of education with potential impact on education in the Caribbean.

Bibliographie de la Martinique


Jardel, Jean Pierre, Maurice Nicolas & Claude Relouzat, Bibliographie de la Martinique, Cahier Spécial du CERAG, Centre d'Etudes Régionales Antilles-Guyane, 1969.

Table des matières:
Sources bibliographiques

Archéologie - Ethnologie

Langage – Folklore

Sociologie – Anthropologie

Religion – Clergé

Littérature – Anthologies

Littérature – Romans – Nouvelles – Théâtre

Journaux – Bulletins – Revues

Annuaires – Almanachs – Guides – Statistiques et Notices d’Exposition

Géographie

Monographies

Cartes – Gravures – Plans

Voyages

Immigration

Géographie

Histoire Générale

Histoire XVIe siècle

Histoire XVIIe siècle

Histoire XVIIIe siècle

Histoire: Période révolutionnaire

Histoire XIXe siècle

Histoire XXe siècle

Histoire militaire

Histoire et Flibustiers

Histoire et commerce

Esclavage – Traite

Droit: le code noir

Droit – Codes – Décrets

Les cinquante pas géométriques

Justice – Procès

Administration – Politique

Banques – Finances – Douanes

Démographie - Economie

Tourisme

Aproximaciones a Bello


Sambrano Urdaneta, Oscar, Aproximaciones a Bello, Caracas: Casa del Escritor, 1977.

Charla pronunciada en la Asociación de Escritores Venezolanos el 29 de noviembre de 1976, con motivo de celebrarse el Día de Bello y el Día del Escritor.


Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (February 6, 1929 – June 14, 2011[1]) was a Venezuelan writer, essayist and literary critic, specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello. In 1978, he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. He served as the president of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, is an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, and was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC) in the late 1990s.

Narciso Descubre Su Trasero: el negro en la cultura puertorriqueña


Zenón Cruz, Isabelo, Narciso descubre su trasero: el negro en la cultura puertorriqueña, Volumen 1, Humacao, Puerto Rico: Editorial Furidi, 1974. (firmado por el autor para el Dr. Mathews)

From Puerto Rico: The pleasures and traumas of race by ALAN WEST-DURÁN:
Thirty-seven years later Isabelo Zenón Cruz spoke of the hypocrisy of the expression negro puertorriqueñ¬o, where Puerto Rican has become an adjective. Why is a black Puerto Rican identified as black before he is considered Puerto Rican?, he sarcastically asks in his monumental two-volume study Narciso descubre su trasero [Narcissus Discovers his Backside]. Zenón Cruz’s painstaking analysis, more than 700 pages long, of historical documents, poems, literature, jokes, religion, lyrics to songs, and popular culture is a landmark study that perhaps not so curiously has been out of print for more than two decades.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean


Grieb, Kenneth J., editor-in-chief; associate editors, Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., Graeme S. Mount, Thomas Mathews, Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean, Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Reviewed in Bulletin of Latin American Research © 1987.

From the Preface:
This volume is a collaborative effort, involving scholars from the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe, to identify the archival resources regarding the Central American and Caribbean region available to historians, and to indicate future directions for research about the region. The Project was initiated during the 1970’s by the Caribe-Centro America Committee of the Conference on Latin American History, the major national organization of historians in the United States specializing in this region.

El Auge del Imperio Español en América


De Madariaga, Salvador, El auge del Imperio Español en América, Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1955.

De la portada:
Este volumen está dedicado al minucioso y exhaustivo examen de las creencias, principios y actitudes que España adoptó ante la conquista, la evolución de estos principios y creencias en lo político, económico y militar, la misma evolución en lo cultural y religioso, el cambio de espíritu que se produce en el siglo XVIII y los porqués del éxito y el fracaso de España en las Indias.