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.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Cibao, Narraciones
Historia Nueva (Journal)
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
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Boletim do Centro Latino-Americano de Pesquisas em Ciências Sociais (Journal)
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
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
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
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
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
Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean
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
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
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)
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
Available online.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652
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
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
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.
(…)
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
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”.
(…)
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
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
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.
(…)
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
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.
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