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Don Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography - Caribbean Books and Pamphlets, 11th Edition by Don Mitchell CBE QC
From 1492 to the Present, English-language Non-Fiction of the West Indies.
Russ Filman's Caribbean Literature
See also: Caribbean History and Study Resources
A Bibliography for Reseachers of Jamaican Genealogy and History by Sally Jones (rootsweb.com)
Books about History of Caribbean & West Indies from Alibris.com
British West Indies from LibraryThing.com
British West Indies Study Circle (BWISC) | Publications List, 2021
A site promoting study of stamps and postal history in the British West Indies and British colonies.
Caribbean Books from A Different Book List
Caribbean @ Island Vulnerability
Island Vulnerability explores the challenges which isolated geographies face when dealing with risk and disasters by examining the processes which create, maintain, and could be used to reduce their vulnerability. This page provides information on some islands in the Caribbean region: Site hosted by Ilan Kelman, London, UK.
Caribbean - Yale University Library
Search for: Caribbean | West Indies - books for sale at: abebooks.com
Caribbean & West Indies - Books available at: Barnes and Nobles
Caribbean from (The) British Library
Caribbean Archaeology Bibliography (PDF)
Caribbean Authors: Selected literature by writers from the West Indies, 2008 (PDF)
Caribbean Islands - Bibliography from Caribbean Islands by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis M. Hanratty, editors. Caribbean Islands: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987. (countrystudies.us)
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: List of imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (Readex)
Created from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is the largest and most significant collection of its kind. More than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
Caribbean Literature by Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Britannica)
Caribbean Resources & Collections - Yale University Library
Caribbean Studies Reference Sources, African-American Research Center - University of Illinois Library
Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (Anthropological Caribbeana)
Resources for the anthropological study of the non-Hispanic Caribbean. Extensive bibliographic and textual coverage for those interested in the region.
Discovering Caribbean and West Indian Literature in English: A select bibliography compiled and selected by John Robert Lee
eBooks: History & Area Studies: Caribbean / West Indies (Digital Book Index)
Environment and development in coastal regions and in small islands, UNESCO Publications (@ archive.org, 2017) | Google search for: Environment and development in coastal regions and in small islands @ site:unesco.org
Google Scholar Advanced Search for: Caribbean
HeadStart Books: Lists of books: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 (@ archive.org; 2007 - 2011)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Gale Publishers, A Cengage Company
Latin American and Caribbean studies - Guide to scholarly sources - Temple University
Latin American Iberian Catalog (ProQuest)
Listing of Caribbean Titles, CARICOM Secretariat, 2011
Literature of the Caribbean - studies from postcolonialweb
Literature on the History of Mesoamerica (KMLA)
Mesoamerican Archaeology by Brent Woodfill (oxfordbibliographies.com)
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation in the Bahamas: a Bibliography by Virginia Ballance, College of The Bahamas (dloc.com)
The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving, U Virginia
The Caribbean - Atlantic History: Oxford Bibliographies
The Caribbean includes the arc of islands in the Caribbean Sea but also the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana) on the mainland of South America and Belize in Central America. The region has been dominated by outsiders. Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492, and he and his successors effectively destroyed the Amerindian population. In addition to the Spanish, there have been English, French, Dutch, and American colonies in the region. For the colonizers, sugar and slavery were crucial to the Caribbean. Outside of Brazil, the Caribbean imported more African slaves than anywhere else in the Americas. This has had lasting effects, as the culture of the Caribbean has been largely dominated by the presence of Africans and their descendants. This helps to explain the large number of revolts against slavery in the Caribbean, including the one successful slave revolt in the Americas, in Haiti. Slave resistance was also significant in the abolition of slavery. In the aftermath of emancipation, the Caribbean witnessed the introduction of new people into the society, largely dominated by indentured laborers from India. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ideas of race consciousness were prominent in the region. However, the major developments in the region in the last century were the coming of independence for many of the former colonies and the Cuban Revolution. For a relatively small region, the Caribbean’s historical impact has therefore been immense.
The 100 Caribbean books that made us (bocaslitfest)
What does a region’s reading list say about it? As the Bocas Lit Fest reveals the 100 Caribbean Books That Made Us, we invite you to explore what lies beneath a crowd-sourced canon – the real revelations have only just begun!
Tourism: A Guide to Resources, UWI, 2010 (PDF)
West Indian Literature (westindiesbooks.com)
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