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Gallery Montserrat : some prominent people in our history
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ISBN: 1435694724 9781435694729 976812525X 9789768125255 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Canoe Press

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Your time is done now : slavery, resistance and defeat : the Maroon trials of Dominica (1813-1814)
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ISBN: 1583675612 9781583675618 9781583675595 9781583675588 1583675582 1583675590 9781583675595 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, New York ; London, England ; Trafalgar, Dominica : Monthly Review Press : Papillote Press,


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An archaeological history of Montserrat in the West Indies
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ISBN: 1789253934 1789253918 178925390X 9781789253917 9781789253900 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford

The rise and the fall of the west indies federation
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ISBN: 8323202400 Year: 1988 Volume: vol 10 Publisher: Poznan : Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza) = Poznan University press,

Jamaica Kincaid : writing memory, writing back to the mother
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ISBN: 0791482928 1423747747 9781423747741 9780791482926 0791465233 9780791465233 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Haunted by the memories of her powerfully destructive mother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in the West Indies in the shadow of her deeply contemptuous and abusive mother, Annie Drew. Drawing heavily on Kincaid's many remarks on the autobiographical sources of her writings, J. Brooks Bouson investigates the ongoing construction of Kincaid's autobiographical and political identities. She focuses attention on what many critics find so enigmatic and what lies at the heart of Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction work: the "mother mystery." Bouson demonstrates, through careful readings, how Kincaid uses her writing to transform her feelings of shame into pride as she wins the praise of an admiring critical establishment and an ever-growing reading public.


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In a sea of empires : networks and crossings in the revolutionary Caribbean
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ISBN: 1108807143 110877928X 1108489729 1108805604 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Leeward Islands, where British, Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Swedish colonies both competed and cooperated with one another. By exploring the transnational networks involved in trade, slavery, smuggling, privateering, and marronage, he offers a new account of the age of revolutions in the Caribbean, emphasizing the border-crossing nature of life in the region. By approaching major shifts in politics, economy, and law from the bottom-up, a new story of early nineteenth-century globalization emerges - one that emphasizes regional integration and a multiplicity of intersecting networks.


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Mapping Water in Dominica : Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism
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ISBN: 0295748737 0295748710 Year: 2021 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record-which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water-reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries"--


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Antigua and the Antiguans : a full account of the colony and its inhabitants.
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ISBN: 0511919697 1108027776 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Antigua was named by Columbus in 1493, and permanently colonised by the British in 1632. The next two hundred years were full of upheaval that shaped the Caribbean island's identity: bloody battles, agricultural progress, British immigration and the establishment and then the abolition of the slave trade. The British-born author adopted Antigua as her home, and her love for the island is evident in both volumes. Legends, stories and particular island features of interest are introduced through the author's experiences and anecdotes, giving a full picture of Antigua at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when the island's population and landscape changed rapidly and irrevocably. Volume 2 focusses on the island's natural history and the customs, character and changing position in society of the Caribs and the imported black slave population. An overview of the changes during the period of the slave trade in the Caribbean.

The Hart sisters : early African Caribbean writers, evangelicals, and radicals
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ISBN: 0585003661 9780585003665 0803219849 9780803219847 9781496226112 1496226119 Year: 1993 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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Daughters of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late 18th and early 19th century Antigua. This is a collection of the writings of these members of the "free colored" community who married white men and played an active role in society.


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Dominica : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note.
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ISBN: 1455226912 1452787832 1280899719 9786613741028 1451988958 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) attaches great importance to the promotion of economic growth and job creation, given the nature of poverty in Dominica. The GSPS also stresses that existing health and education programs are essential to foster growth in the medium and long terms, but further efforts are needed. The GSPS contains a macroeconomic framework that is consistent with the proposed objectives of poverty reduction. The growth and fiscal targets envisaged in the macroeconomic framework are also consistent with the objective of maintaining public debt sustainability.

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