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Dreaming of Dixieby Karen L. Cox
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 34.95Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region's past. more...
Jews of the Dutch Caribbeanby Alan F. Benjamin
Routledge 2002; US$ 120.00This book examines the contexts of identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, with an intriguing history. more...
Tutu Archaeological Village Siteby Elizabeth Righter; Anna Roosevelt
Routledge 2002; US$ 260.00This volume reports the results of techniques for understanding of human adaptive strategies during 1.300 years of site occupation. These investigations lay a solid foundation for future studies of prehistoric Caribbean human populations more...
Global Culture, Island Identityby Karen Fog Olwig
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 44.95The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by a notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and ass more...
Masters and Lordsby Shearer Davis Bowman
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 125.00This sweeping study presents a comparative view of large planters in the antebellum American South before the US Civil War and the Junkers of East Prussia during the same period. more...
The Devil's Laneby Catherine Clinton; Michele Gillespie
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 37.00Land contested over by settlers in the early South was named "the devil's lane" with violence often befalling those who ventured there. These essays on sexuality, race and gender in the South from the 17th to 19th century, explore legal history through race, crime, punishment and slander. more...
Away Down Southby James C. Cobb
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 17.95Chronicles nearly two centuries of how Southerners have answered the question of what it means to be Southern. more...
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedomby Douglas V. Armstrong
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95?With the first study to address the development of a free, mixed-race Caribbean community using historical and archaeological evidence, Armstrong has provided a new direction for research and challenged accepted notions of Caribbean family structure. more...
Cayman Islands Aliveby John Bigley; Paris Permenter
Hunter Publishing 2004; US$ 14.99A 272-page guide to the shopping, hotels, restaurants and activities more...
Adventure Guide Barbadosby Keith L. Whiting
Hunter Publishing 2007; US$ 18.99A 256-page travel guide with color photos and maps throughout more...









