Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Guard
In the call and response tradition located throughout the black diaspora, artists and writers Llanor Alleyne and Nyugen Smith combine prose, and poetry to critically engage topics of invisibility, tourism, sites of memory, and value of the arts resulting from their recent collaborative intervention in coordination with and at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (BMHS) titled, The Guard. The Guard placed a barefoot Smith as the museum's sole guard over a five-hour period as Alleyne, in her role as "Professional Staff", observed and documented interactions between museum visitors and The Guard. As both participants and observers, the artists took note of their invisibility and hypervisi...
The Social Museum in the Caribbean
A collection of 195 museums in the Caribbean showcases the unique practices and processes used to engage with contemporary communities.
Sugar in the Blood
From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.
Genealogies of Barbados Families
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a continuous flow of settlers from Barbados to virtually every point on the Atlantic seaboard, with the result that many families in America today trace their origins in the New World first to Barbados. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal Caribbeana and The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.This present work contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals.The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index.
Prehistoric Settlements in the Caribbean
This volume outlines recent fieldwork on Barbados, Tortola and the Cayman Islands. It provides the only reliable evidence for the prehistory of the smaller islands of the Caribbean. Topics covered include material culture, economy and subsistence, settlement archaeology, cultural background, and questions about unoccupied islands.
Journal
None
The First Black Slave Society
Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.
