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  • Once Upon a Reef

    A Dominican Adventure

    by Chap Harper ...
    In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered  a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded with treasure that belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. They would soon learn that a much larger treasure was hidden elsewhere in the Dominican Republic that could be ... Read more

    $5.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Once Upon a Reef

    by Chap Harper ...
    Narrated by Steve Knupp ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Chris Zachariius Thriller

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded wth valuables that had belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Soon they were to find that a three billion fortune was still out there and most likely somewhere in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Sea Rover's Practice

    by Benerson Little ...
    To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic clich?. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves, and paradoxically it is the picaresque imagery of Pyle, Wyeth, Sabatini, and Hollywood that is often closer ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    by Adam Ewing ...
    Series series America in the World
    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Plantation Church

    How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

    by Noel Leo Erskine ...
    Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Afro-Caribbean Religions

    An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions

    by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell ...
    Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean Religions, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Legendary Pirates: The Life and Legacy of Captain Henry Morgan

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes historic illustrations depicting Morgan and important events in his life.*Includes excerpts from an account of Morgan's piracy written by his ship's surgeon.*Analyzes Morgan's legacy and current efforts to find some of his sunken pirate ships.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • My Name is Marcus Garvey

    A Bite-size Introduction to Marcus Garvey's Life

    by Everol Wilson ...
    A bite-size introduction to the life of Marcus Garvey, structured in two parts:Part 1; chronicles the life of Marcus Garvey in a first person summary form.Part 2; gives a broader view, based on what we now know, as a result of documents which have been made public by the US and British governmentsDuring his lifetime Marcus Garvey was given a number of titles; political leader, publisher, ... Read more

    $3.82 USD

  • God Carlos

    by Anthony C. Winkler ...
    This tragicomic novel set in sixteenth-century Jamaica is a "gusty, boisterous, [and] entertaining . . . slice of historical fiction" (Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered).Winner of the 2014 Townsend Prize for FictionA fortune-seeking band of ragtag sailors travel aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish vessel bound for the newly discovered West Indies. She is an unusual explorer for her day, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dictator Next Door

    The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945

    by Eric Paul Roorda ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo’s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book

    Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Colin A. Palmer was a leading historian of the Caribbean and the African diaspora. Freedom’s Children joins Palmer’s Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean and Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power in chronicling the history of British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean. ... Read more

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