Thursday, December 29, 2016

Dark Puritan


Smith, M.G., Dark Puritan, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies, 1963.

See also Dark Puritan: The Life and Work of Norman Paul.

Michael Garfield Smith OM (18 August 1921 - 5 January 1993) was a Jamaican social anthropologist and poet of international repute.
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A prolific writer, Smith authored or co-authored numerous books and articles on theory, on Northern Nigeria, and on the West Indies. The Smith corpus of social science publications, the M.G. Smith Archive, is on-line in www.cifas.us, 26 books, 41 articles, 41 chapters, 21 reviews and 10 unpublished manuscripts of various lengths.

The Land Columbus Loved: The Dominican Republic


Harding, Bertita, The Land Columbus Loved: The Dominican Republic, New York: Coward – McCann, Inc., 1949.

Reviewed in Kirkus.

Bertita Harding (11 November 1902 – 31 December 1971) was a royal biographer with an easy and sometimes humorous style that made her a popular author.
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In 1940 she made a trip to Brazil that inspired her books on the House of Braganza of Brazil. The following year she began a career as lecturer, giving more than 120 lectures throughout the United States. During World War II her husband served as lieutenant colonel and she sold war bonds on support of the troops. In the last part of the 1940s Bertita published The Land Columbus loved, a traveling book written with her husband, and wrote, Mosaic, in the Fountain, an autobiographical book covering her childhood. The couple had an active social life and traveled extensively as Bertita continued her series of lectures around the United States.

In the Tropics: by a Settler in Santo Domingo


Fabens, Joseph Warren, In the Tropics: by a Settler in Santo Domingo / With an introductory notice by Richard B. Kimball, New York: Carleton, 1863.

Available online.

Author and commercial agent Joseph W. Fabens and land speculator Henry L. Kinney were filibusters in Central America in 1855. In 1854, largely financed by New York backers, Kinney purchased millions of acres of land in Nicaragua under dubious legal circumstances, with the intent to start a colony. In February 1855 Kinney was warned that his proposed colony might violate the U.S. Neutrality Act as well. In April 1855 both Kinney and Fabens were arrested in New York and their vessel blockaded by the U.S. Navy at its East River wharf. Released on bail Kinney slipped out of New York and traveled to Nicaragua. With a handful of followers he launched a failed revolt against both the Nicaraguan government and the regime of fellow American William Walker.

Africanismes Haïtiens: Compilations et Notes


Romain, J. B., Africanismes haïtiens: compilations et notes, Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Impr. M. Rodríguez, 1978.

Extrait de La création plastique et le tournant ethnologique en Haïti:
En cette année 1978, Jean-Baptiste Romain, alors doyen de la Faculté, publie Africanismes haïtiens. Compilations et notes, ouvrage qui constitue à la fois le n° 31 de la Revue de la Faculté et le n° 6 du Bulletin de l’Académie des sciences humaines et sociales d’Haïti. Romain (1978: 9) entend, à partir de la méthode proposée par Herskovits, établir une première synthèse des données sur les survivances africaines en Haïti.


Extracted from Creation in the plastic arts and the «ethnological turning point» in Haiti:
In the year 1978, Jean-Baptiste Romain, then dean of the Faculty, published Haitian Africanisms, Compilations and notes, which constitutes at the same time the n ° 31 of the Revue de la Faculté and the n ° 6 of the Bulletin of the Academy of Human and Social Sciences of Haiti. Romain (1978: 9) intends, based on the method proposed by Herskovits, to establish an initial synthesis of data on African survivals in Haiti.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Europe in the Caribbean: The Policies of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands towards their West Indian territories in the Twentieth Century


Mitchell, Harold, Sir, Europe in the Caribbean: The Policies of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands towards their West Indian territories in the Twentieth Century, Stanford: Hispanic American Society, Stanford University, 1963.

Reviewed in The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science © 1964.

Sir Harold Paton Mitchell, 1st Baronet JP, DL (21 May 1900 – 8 April 1983) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.
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In 1920 Mitchell invested in and turned round the failing Mountain Park Coal Company in Canada. This company formed the core of the later Mitchell controlled company Luscar. He was an investor in the Globe and Phoenix Gold Mining Company Ltd. in Southern Africa. He had extensive mining interests in Canada and the United States (Luscar).
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In later life he became a lecturer and author on Caribbean subjects and wrote several books including two on Caribbean economics and politics in 1967.


See also Caribbean Patterns: a Political and Economic Study of the Contemporary Caribbean.

Estudios Latinoamericanos 6, II Parte (Academia de Ciencias de Polonia) [Journal]


Estudios Latinoamericanos 6 II Parte, Zakland Narodowy im. Ossolinskich – Wydawnictwo, Wroclaw, 1980.

Disponible en línea.

Vea I Parte.

Véase además Estudios latinoamericanos en Polonia.

Monday, December 26, 2016

La República Dominicana: Una Ficción


Jimenes Grullón, J. I., La República Dominicana: una ficción: análisis de la evolución histórica y de la presencia actual del coloniaje y el colonialismo en Santo Domingo, Mérida Venezuela: Talleres Gráficos Universitarios, 1965.

De Wikipedia en Inglés:
Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón (born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 17, 1903 – August 10, 1983) was a Dominican essayist, historian, physician, philosopher, educator and politician. (…)In 1934, Jimenes was discovered plotting against the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and was imprisoned and then exiled in 1935. He lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the United States and Cuba where he remained in exile for twenty-six years while he continued to fight the tyranny of Trujillo. In 1941 while still in Cuba, he and other Dominican exiles on the island, founded the Dominican Revolutionary Party and the Dominican Patriotic Alliance. He participated in the failed expedition of Constanza, Maimon and Estero Hondo in 1959. Six months after Trujillo's assassination he returned to his country and immediately integrated plunged into national policy. In 1962, Jimenes was a candidate for the Presidency with the Social Democratic Alliance party. He also taught history and sociology at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. He published twenty books in the fields of sociology, philosophy, history and literature.

República Dominicana: Clases, Crisis y Comandos


Franco, Franklin, República Dominicana: clases, crisis y comandos, La Habana: Casa de las Americas, 1966.(frágil)

Comentario de Leopoldo Artiles:
Para empezar, el texto Clases Crisis y Comandos, de Franklin Franco, obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Ensayo de Casa de las Américas de 1966, algo sorprendente tratándose de ser su primer libro publicado. …Manuel Moreno Fraginal, miembro del jurado de Casa de las Américas, quien hizo una breve presentación del libro, y lo calificó como: a) un ensayo de elaboración teórica, riguroso en el método, con un nivel mantenido a lo largo de la obra y sin caer en la prosa propagandística o emocional, b) por la habilidad con que se liga el relato meticuloso de los acontecimientos con el trasfondo estructural e histórico, y, c) el importante acopio documental correctamente manejado.


Franklin Franco Pichardo (nació el 14 de noviembre de 1936 en Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, murió el 15 de junio de 20131 ) en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, fue historiador, sociólogo, profesor y político dominicano.

Páginas Dominicanas (Eugenio María de Hostos)


De Hostos, Eugenio María, Páginas dominicanas, Selección de Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, Santo Domingo: Editorial “Librería Dominicana”, 1964.

Índice:
Hostos en nuestro pasado y nuestro porvenir, por Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi.

Por El Bien De La República:

El horizonte de Santo Domingo.
Notas de viajero en Puerto Rico.
Una lección de Economía Política en un plano de Ferrocarril.
Del Ozama al Jura.
De la Presidencia al Rectorado.
Baní como ejemplo del deber de contribución.
La provincia de Santiago como ejemplo de adhesión.
Sud y Norte: Norte y Sud.
La que algún día será una gran nacionalidad.
Quisqueya, su Sociedad y algunos de sus hijos.
En Puerto Plata.
Civilización o muerte.

27 De Febrero Y 16 De Agosto:

Monólogo (27 de febrero).
Veinte y siete y Diez y seis.
El 16 de agosto.
El 16 de agosto.
El 16 de agosto.

Discursos En La Escuela Normal:

En la investidura de los Primeros Maestros Normales.
En la investidura de los Segundos Maestros Normales.
En la primera investidura de alumnos del Instituto de Señoritas.

Letras Dominicanas:

La Historia de Quisqueya, (J. G. García).
Soledad, (G. F. Deligne).
Temas Políticos, (A. Angulo Guridi).
Salomé Ureña de Henríquez.
Lo que no quiso el lirico quisqueyano, (J. J. Pérez).
El libro de Américo Lugo.

Semblanzas Dominicanas:

Duarte y Sánchez como ejemplos del patriotismo.
Gregoria Riva, como ejemplo del deber de fomento.
El Padre Billini.


Eugenio María de Hostos (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as "El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas" ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate.

Dominican Diary


Szulc, Tad, Dominican Diary, New York: Delacorte Press, 1965.

Reviewed in Caribbean Studies © 1967.

Tadeusz Witold Szulc (July 25, 1926 – May 21, 2001) was an author and foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972.[1] Szulc is credited with breaking the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Monday, December 12, 2016

The Magic Island


Seabrook W.B., The Magic Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1929.

William Buehler Seabrook (February 22, 1884 – September 20, 1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland. He began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia and later became a partner in an advertising agency in Atlanta.


Note from me: A series of newspaper and magazine(?) clippings were found in this book which were on the verge of disintegration, so I attempted to preserve them digitally:

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Caste in Overseas Indian Communities


Schwartz, Barton M., Ed., Caste in Overseas Indian Communities, San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co., 1967.

Reviewed in The International Migration Review © 1969.

Contents:
Preface.

Introduction by Adrian C. Mayer.

Caste in Mauritius, by Burton Benedict.

Caste and Social Status among the Indians of Guyana, by Raymond T. Smith and Chandra Jayawardena.

Caste and Identity in Guyana, by Philip Singer.

The Failure of Caste in Trinidad, by Barton M. Schwartz.

The Function of Caste among the Indians of the Oropuche Lagoon, Trinidad, by Arthur Niehoff.

Caste among Hindus in a Town in Trinidad: San Fernando, by Colin Clarke.

The Caste System and the Hindustani Group in Surinam, by Johan D. Speckmann.

Caste and Endogamy in Fiji, by Barton M. Schwartz.

Changes in Caste of the South African India, by Hilda Kuper.

Caste among the Indians of Uganda, by H.S. Morris.

Ideology and Content of Caste among the Indians of East Africa, by Agehananda Bharati.

La Administración Pública en Haití


García Zamor, Jean-Claude, La Administración Pública en Haití, (Introducción por Richard Morse), Guatemala: Editorial Landívar, 1966.

De la “nota” del Autor:
Este libro fue escrito en 1960 y presentado a la Escuela Graduada de Administración Publica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico como uno de los requerimientos para una Maestría. No he hecho ninguna revisión substanciosa al trabajo. Agradezco a la Organización de los Estados Americanos quien me otorgo una beca que hizo posible el cumplimiento de esta obra.

Caribbean Statistical Yearbook, 1967


CODECA, Caribbean Statistical Yearbook, San Juan, PR: Caribbean Economic Development Corporation, July, 1967.

The Statistical Yearbook of the Caribbean is a summary of economic and social statistics of general interest. It is an immediate reference volume containing basic information and indicators of general development in the Caribbean islands and indicating in footnotes to the tables, where additional statistical data may be obtained. This edition, the first to be published for the Caribbean contains statistical data for the years 1958-1965 with some projections for 1975. Data was obtained from publications of the region and information submitted by Governments of the Caribbean to the Statistical Yearbook of the United Nations.