Caribbean Generations

Gordon, Shirley C., Caribbean Generations: a CXC history source book, Trinidad, London, New York: Longman Caribbean, Longman Group, 1983.

This is a source book to help students and teachers to prepare for the history syllabus of the new Caribbean Examinations Council. The new history syllabus is not simply a list of topics to be studied. It provides objectives for the way history should be studied, as well as indicating the content of Caribbean history for the new 'O' level examination.

Socialism and Slavery

Millette, James, Socialism and Slavery, Trinidad and Tobago, WI: Moko Enterprises, 1978.

James Millette Emeritus Professor at Oberlin College

La Vorágine [Novel]

Eustasio Rivera, José, La vorágine, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, s.f.

"En noviembre de 1924, aparece en Bogotá La vorágine, novela colombiana que de inmediato ganó una remarcable reputación, por el contenido y creatividad con que el autor José Eustasio Rivera, hace llegar al lector los acontecimientos narrados en la obra. Esta, a la cual me referiré tomando algunos aspectos fundamentales a su estructura, unidad de tiempo, contenido, carácter social y rol histórico, es a mi juicio, una expresión vigente en la creatividad literaria de hoy y que puede ser resumida como el Macondo colombiano de 1924."
La vorágine: Valor histórico y estructura conceptual
Elías Letelier

Tobago [Journal article]

Edgar Anderson, Tobago, Baltische Hefte, Vol. 7, No. 4 and Vol. 8, Nos. 1, 3, and 4

Spanish Viceroys in America

Hanke, Lewis, Spanish Viceroys in America, Houston, Texas: University of St. Thomas, 1972.

Lewis Ulysses Hanke

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

Cohen, J.M., (translator), The discovery and conquest of Peru: a translation of books I-IV of Agustin de Zarate's History of these events, supplemented by eye-witness accounts of certain incidents by Francisco de Jerez, Miguel Estete, Juan Ruiz de Arce, Hernando Pizarro, Diego de Trujillo, and Alonso de Guzman, who took part in the conquest, and by Pedro Cieza de Leon, Garcilaso de la Vega "the Inca," and Jose de Acesta, later historians who had first hand sources of information / translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen ; illustrated by Edward Bawden, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968. [Paperback]

Agustín de Zárate:

Durante quince años fue contador del Consejo de Castilla y en 1543 fue nombrado contador de mercedes para el Virreinato del Perú y Tierra Firme. Llegó a América, al Virreinato del Perú, en 1544 en la expedición del primer virrey, Blasco Núñez de Vela. Estando en este puesto la Audiencia de Lima le nombró como negociador entre los encomenderos, que estaban al mando de Gonzalo Pizarro y el virrey. En plenas negociaciones fue apresado por Gonzalo Pizarro.

In 1543 Charles V sent Agustín de Zárate (b. 1514) to Perú along with Blasco Nüñez Vela, the first viceroy, to oversee finances. In 1545 Zárate returned to Spain with a collection of personal notes and other documents about the civil war. His history, divided into seven chapters, begins with the Spanish discovery of Perú and ends with the death of Gonzalo Pizarro and the restoration of royal authority by Governor Pedro de la Gasca. Aware of the dangers involved in writing about such recent and controversial matters, Zárate expressed a reluctance to publish his history during his lifetime, but a manuscript copy of it was read by Prince Phillip, the future King Philip II of Spain, who liked it so much that he ordered its publication. Zárate’s Historia was well received, and in 1577 it was reprinted in Seville. An Italian translation published in 1563 and an English translation published in 1581 are proof of its quick popularity outside of Spain.

Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon

Guppy, Nicholas, Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1961. [Paperback]

Here, graphically written and illustrated , is the perfect travel book. Wai-Wai is the first account of genuine exploration in a region which is almost unknown. For centuries, strange stories have come to us from the basin of the Amazon - of White Indians, of human beings living like otters in underwater caves, of the lost city of Kashima, and of female warriors. Nicholas Guppy penetrated the upper waters of the Rio Alto Trombetas to bring back this report. The result is all at once scientific discovery and magnificent adventure. 'Gives a fascinating account both of this still unspoiled Indian tribe and of the unique untouched rain-forests of the Guiana-Brazil border....' Dr. Julian Huxley.

Wai Wais to set up conservation area