Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 44 #1, Vol. 45 & Vol. 53 # 1

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, Feb., 1964.

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. XLV, No. 1, Feb., 1965. (contains Dr. Mathews’ review of Puerto Rico, Freedom and Power in the Caribbean, and Book Notice The Puerto Rico Problem.)

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. XLV, No. 2, May, 1965.

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3, August, 1965. (contains Dr. Mathews’ review of Jamaican Leaders).

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. XLV, No. 4, November, 1965.

Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, February, 1973.

Economie Antillaise: Fondements Historiques

Acheen, René, “Fondements Historiques”, [Mimeo] extrait de Economie Antillaise, Pointe à Pitre: Émile Desormeaux, 1973.

Table des matières:

L'économie de plantation de 1635 à 1848.

L'économie de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique au début de la colonisation (1635-1660).
Intérêts métropolitains.
Population et occupation du territoire.
L'économie des îles.

Le passage a l'economie de plantation.
Le sucre remplace le tabac, la plantation elimine la petit ferme.
Colbert et le mercantilisme.

L'économie de plantation à l'époque esclavagiste.
Le cadre institutionnel général de collaboration: l'exclusif.
Les caractéristiques structurelles de l'économie coloniale.

Le développement économique de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique de 1660 à 1848.
1 période : Le développement de la Martinique (1660-1753).
2 période : Les conséquences de l'essor de la production sucrière à Saint Domingue (1753-1789).
3 période : La reprise de l'économie sucrière en Guadeloupe et en Martinique (1815-1848).

Les Antilles, sources de richesses.

L'économie de plantation modifiée de 1848 à 1946.

La conjoncture nouvelle.
La crise des économies esclavagistes de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique (première moitié du XIXe siècle).
La position de la France dans la nouvelle conjoncture économique mondiale.

Les structures spécifiques de l'économie de plantation modifiée de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique.
Caracteres généraux des économies antillaises.
Caracteres particulières de l'économie de plantation modifiée a la Guadeloupe et a la Martinique.

La stratégie métropolitaine et l’ajustement des économies de plantation modifiées.
Le fonctionnement des économies a la Guadeloupe et a la Martinique de 1848 à 1946.
La survie des plantations antillaises.

Déséquilibre structurel des relations métropole-périphérie.
Index des tableaux.
Index des figures.
Bibliographie.

Table of Contents:

The plantation economy from 1635 to 1848.

The economy of Guadeloupe and Martinique at the beginning of colonization (1635-1660).
Metropolitan interests.
Population and land use.
The economy of the islands.

The transition to the plantation economy.
Sugar replaces tobacco, and plantations eliminate small farms.
Colbert and mercantilism.

The plantation economy during the slave era.
The general institutional framework of collaboration: exclusivity.
The structural characteristics of the colonial economy.

The economic development of Guadeloupe and Martinique from 1660 to 1848.
1 period: The development of Martinique (1660-1753).
2 period: The consequences of the rise of sugar production in Saint Domingue (1753-1789).
3 period: The recovery of the sugar economy in Guadeloupe and Martinique (1815-1848).

The Antilles, sources of wealth

The modified plantation economy from 1848 to 1946.

The new economic situation.
The crisis of the slave economies of Guadeloupe and Martinique (first half of the 19th century).
France's position in the new global economic situation.

Specific structures of the modified plantation economy of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
General characteristics of West Indian economies.
Specific characteristics of the modified plantation economy in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Metropolitan strategy and adaptation of modified plantation economies.
The functioning of the economies of Guadeloupe and Martinique from 1848 to 1946.
The survival of West Indian plantations.

Structural imbalance in metropolis-periphery relations.
Index of tables.
Index of figures.
Bibliography.

Independence: A Realistic Solution

Berríos Martínez, Rubén, “Independence: A Realistic Solution”, Mimeo [This is the last chapter of the thesis presented by Mr. Rubén A. Berríos Martínez for the Degree of LLB in the Yale Law School], N.D.

Rubén Ángel Berríos Martínez (born June 21, 1939) is a Puerto Rican politician, international law attorney, writer, and current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP). A former three-time senator, Berríos is a perennial PIP candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico. He led the Navy–Culebra protests that succeeded in the United States Navy abandoning the use of the Puerto Rican island of Culebra for military exercises and was a leader for the Cause of Vieques.

Afro-American Religions and Religious Behavior

Simpson, George Eaton, “Afro-American Religions and Religious Behavior” (Separata of Caribbean Studies), Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1972.(signed by author for Dr. Mathews)

An earlier version of this article was presented at a conference on “Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Cultures,” sponsored by the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures, Social Science Research Council, New York City, and held at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, April 3, 1970.

Some Aspects of Youthful Identity Management in a Paramaribo Creole Neighborhood

Brana-Shute, Gary, "Some Aspects of Youthful Identity Management in a Paramaribo Creole Neighborhood”, [Mimeo of Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide, 53ste Jaarg., No. 1/2 (September 1978), pp. 1-20].

Available on-line.

Between Two Worlds - Educated Puerto Rican Migrant Women of the Early Settlements

Sanchez Korrol, Virginia E., “Between Two Worlds - Educated Puerto Rican Migrant Women of the Early Settlements” (Paper), N.D.

Virginia Sánchez Korrol is an American historian and foundational figure in the field of Puerto Rican studies. She is a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and CUNY. Throughout her career, Sánchez Korrol has also worked with the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn’s Hispanic Communities Oral History Project, and as one of three U.S. scholars on the international program committee of the Fifth International Congress on Hispanic Cultures in the United States, which was held in Madrid, Spain, in 1992.

Report on Haiti

Mintz, Sidney W., “Report on Haiti” (Paper), 1959.

About five decades ago, I lived in Haiti for a year and a half. I was trying to figure out how the marketplaces—which, then as now, tie the country together economically—actually worked. ~ Sidney Mintz (2010).