Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 305-371
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Hague

-Bill Maurer, Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies. New York: Routledge, 2003. ix + 252 pp.-Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Richard Price ,The root of roots: Or, how Afro-American anthropology got its start. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press/University of Chicago Press, 2003. 91 pp., Sally Price (eds)-Holly Snyder, Paolo Bernardini ,The Jews and the expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. xv + 567 pp., Norman Fiering (eds)-Bridget Brereton, Seymour Drescher, The mighty experiment: Free labor versus slavery in British emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 307 pp.-Jean Besson, Kathleen E.A. Monteith ,Jamaica in slavery and freedom: History, heritage and culture. Kingston; University of the West Indies Press, 2002. xx + 391 pp., Glen Richards (eds)-Michaeline A. Crichlow, Jean Besson, Martha Brae's two histories: European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xxxi + 393 pp.-Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Joseph C. Dorsey, Slave traffic in the age of abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 311 pp.-Arnold R. Highfield, Erik Gobel, A guide to sources for the history of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1671-1917. Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002. 350 pp.-Sue Peabody, David Patrick Geggus, Haitian revolutionary studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 334 pp.-Gerdès Fleurant, Elizabeth McAlister, Rara! Vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 259 pp. and CD demo.-Michiel Baud, Ernesto Sagás ,The Dominican people: A documentary history. Princeton NJ: Marcus Wiener, 2003. xiii + 278 pp., Orlando Inoa (eds)-Samuel Martínez, Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. x + 384 pp.-Eric Paul Roorda, Bernardo Vega, Almoina, Galíndez y otros crímenes de Trujillo en el extranjero. Santo Domingo: Fundación Cultural Dominicana, 2001. 147 pp.''Diario de una misión en Washington. Santo Domingo: Fundación Cultural Dominicana, 2002. 526 pp.-Gerben Nooteboom, Aspha Bijnaar, Kasmoni: Een spaartraditie in Suriname en Nederland. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2002. 378 pp.-Dirk H.A. Kolff, Chan E.S. Choenni ,Hindostanen: Van Brits-Indische emigranten via Suriname tot burgers van Nederland. The Hague: Communicatiebureau Sampreshan, 2003. 224 pp., Kanta Sh. Adhin (eds)-Dirk H.A. Kolff, Sandew Hira, Het dagboek van Munshi Rahman Khan. The Hague: Amrit/Paramaribo: NSHI, 2003. x + 370 pp.-William H. Fisher, Neil L. Whitehead, Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the poetics of violent death. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 309 pp.-David Scott, A.J. Simoes da Silva, The luxury of nationalist despair: George Lamming's fiction as decolonizing project. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 217 pp.-Lyn Innes, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, The flight of the vernacular. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. xvi + 303 pp.-Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Tobias Döring, Caribbean-English passages: Intertextuality in a postcolonial tradition. London: Routledge, 2002. xii + 236 pp.-A. James Arnold, Celia Britton, Race and the unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean thought. Oxford: Legenda, 2002. 115 pp.-Nicole Roberts, Dorothy E. Mosby, Place, language, and identity in Afro-Costa Rican literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii + 248 pp.-Stephen Steumpfle, Philip W. Scher, Carnival and the formation of a Caribbean transnation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvi + 215 pp.-Peter Manuel, Frances R. Aparicho ,Musical migrations: transnationalism and cultural hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume 1. With Maria Elena Cepeda. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 216 pp., Candida F. Jaquez (eds)-Jorge Pérez Rolón, Maya Roy, Cuban Music. London: Latin America Bureau/Princeton NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002. ix + 246 pp.-Bettina M. Migge, Gary C. Fouse, The story of Papiamentu: A study in slavery and language. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 2002. x + 261 pp.-John M. McWhorter, Bettina Migge, Creole formation as language contact: the case of the Suriname creoles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. xii + 151 pp.

The Elizabethan House of Commons. By J. E. Neale. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1950. Pp. 455. $5.00.) - Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century. By K. W. Swart. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1949. Pp. 165.) - The Law and the Commonwealth. By R. T. E. Latham. (London: Oxford University Press. 1949. Pp. viii, 510–633. $1.75.) - Germany Under Occupation; Illustrative Materials and Documents. By James K. Pollock, James H. Meisel and Heney L. Bretton. (Ann Arbor: George Wahr Publishing Co. 1949. Pp. 305.) - Contrôle de l'Allemagne. Control of Germany. By Louis F. Aubert, William Diebold, Michael Zvegintzovet al., (Paris: Marcel Rivière et Cie. Distributed in the U. S. by Columbia University Press. 1949. Pp. 144. $1.25.) - Education in Occupied Germany. L'Education de l'Allemagne Occupée. By Helen Liddell, Edmund Vermeil, Bogdan Suchodolski. (Paris: Marcel Rivière et Cie. Distributed in the U. S. by Columbia University Press. 1948. Pp. 148. $1.25.) - The Austrian Electoral Reform of 1907. By William Alexander Jenks. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1950. Pp. 227. $3.25.) - Whirlwind; Tito's Rise to Power. By Stephen Clissold. (New York: Philosophical Library. 1949. Pp. 245. $3.75.) - The Cardinal's Story; The Life and Work of Joseph, Cardinal Mindszenty, Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary. By Stephen K. Swift. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1949. Pp. x, 328. $3.75.) - Leaves from a Russian Diary—and Thirty Years After. By Pitirim A. Sorokin. (Boston: The Beacon Press. 1950. Pp. ix, 346. $3.50.) - India, Pakistan, and the West. By Percival Spear. (London: Oxford University Press. 1949. Pp. 232. $2.00.)

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-509
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New Haven ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Yale University ◽  
The West ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-203
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
The West ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
The Press

-Sandra L. Richards, Judy S.J. Stone, Theatre. London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1994. xii + 268 pp.-Lowell Fiet, Errol Hill, The Jamaican stage, 1655-1900: profile of a colonial theatre. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xiv + 346 pp.-Supriya Nair, Bruce King, V.S. Naipaul. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. viii + 170 pp.-Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Donald E. Rice, The rhetorical uses of the authorizing figure: Fidel Castro and José Martí. Westport CT: Praeger, 1992. xviii + 163 pp.-Graciella Cruz-Taura, Juan A. Martínez, Cuban art and national identity: The Vanguardia painters, 1927-1950. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. xiv + 189 pp.-Graciella Cruz-Taura, Luis Camnitzer, New art of Cuba. Austin; University of Texas Press, 1994. xxx + 400 pp.-Gary Brana-Shute, Richard Price ,On the mall: Presenting Maroon tradition-bearers at the 1992 festival of American folklife. Bloomington: Folklore Institute, Indiana University, 1994. xi + 123 pp., Sally Price (eds)-Erika Bourguignon, Stephan Palmié, Das Exil der Götter: Geschichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991. vii + 520 pp.-Carla Freeman, Daniel Miller, Modernity, an ethnographic approach: Dualism and mass consumption in Trinidad. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994. 340 pp.-Daniel A. Segal, Kelvin Singh, Race and class: Struggles in a colonial state: Trinidad 1917-1945. Kingston; The Press - University of the West Indies, 1994. xxii + 284 pp.-Evelyne Huber, Patsy Lewis, Jamaica: Preparing for the twenty-first century. Kingston: Ian Randle, 1994. xvi + 272 pp.-Diane Vernon, Elisa Janine Sobo, One blood: The Jamaican body. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. vii + 329 pp.-Robert Myers, Patrick L. Baker, Centring the periphery: Chaos. order and the ethnohistory of Dominica. Kingston: The Press - University of the West Indies, 1994. xxviii + 251 pp.-Riva Berleant-Schiller, Debra Evenson, Revolution in the balance: Law and society in contemporary Cuba. Boulder CO: Westview, 1994. xiii + 235 pp.-Riva Berleant-Schiller, Mindie Lazarus-Black, Legitimate acts and illegal encounters: Law and society in Antigua and Barbuda. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. xxv + 357 pp.-Michiel Baud, Luis Martínez-Fernández, Torn between empires: Economy, society, and patterns of political thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. ix + 333 pp.-Stanley L. Engerman, Jorge F. Pérez-López, The economics of Cuban sugar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, xviii + 313 pp.-Rosario Espinal, Michiel Baud, Historia de un sueño: Los ferrocarriles públicos en la República Dominicana, 1880-1930. Santo Domingo: Fundación Cultural Dominicana, 1993. 145 pp.-Birgit Sonesson, Carlos Esteban Dieve, Las emigraciones canarias a Santo Domingo: Siglos XVII y XVIII. Santo Domingo: Fundación Cultural Dominicana, 1991. iii + 185 pp.-Erna Kerkhof, Juan Flores, Divided borders: Essays on Puerto Rican identity. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993. 252 pp.-Cruz M. Nazario, Joan Koss-Chioino, Women as healers, women as patients: Mental health care and traditional healing in Puerto Rico. Boulder CO: Westview, 1992. xx + 237 pp.-Forrest D. Colburn, Andrés Serbin ,El Caribe y Cuba en la posguerra fría. Caracas: Editorial Nueva Sociedad, 1994. 272 pp., Joseph Tulchin (eds)-Winthrop R. Wright, Nina S. de Friedemann, La saga del negro: Presencia africana en Colombia. Santa Fe de Bogotá: Centro Editorial Javeriano, 1993. 117 pp.-Rita Giacalone, Francois Taglioni, Géopolitique des Petites Antilles: Influences européenne et nordaméricaine. Paris: Karthala, 1994. vii + 321 pp.-Daniel J. Crowley, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties. With the assistance of Nancy Condon. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. vii + 512 pp.-Peter Bakker, Joan D. Hall ,Old English and new: Studies in language and linguistics in honor of Frederic G. Cassidy. New York: Garland, 1992. xxxiii + 460 pp., Nick Doane, Dick Ringler (eds)-Peter Bakker, Francis Byrne ,Atlantic meets Pacific: A global view of Pidginization and Creolization. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993. ix + 465 pp., John Holm (eds)-Jacques Arends, George L. Huttar ,Ndyuka. London: Routledge, 1994. 631 pp., Mary L. Huttar (eds)-P.C. Emmer, Henk den Heyer, De geschiedenis van de WIC. Zutphen, Netherlands: De Walburg Pers, 1994. 208 pp.-Wim Hoogbergen, A.F. Paula, 'Vrije' slaven: Een sociaal-historische studie over de dualistische slavenemancipatie op Nederlands Sint Maarten, 1816-1863. Zutphen, Netherlands: De Walburg Pers, 1993. 191 pp.-Wim Hoogbergen, Bea Brommer, Ik ben eigendom van ...: Slavenhandel en plantageleven. Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands: Pictures Publishers, 1993. 144 pp.-Gert Oostindie, Ben Scholtens, Bosnegers en overheid in Suriname: De ontwikkeling van de politieke verhouding 1651-1992. Paramaribo: Afdeling Cultuurstudies/Minov, 1994. 237 pp.-Edward M. Dew, Marten Schalkwijk, Suriname: Het steentje in de Nederlandse schoen: Van onafhankelijkheid tot raamverdrag. Paramaribo: Firgos Suriname, 1994. 356 pp.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-146
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
The West ◽  
The People ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Juan Francisco Manzano ◽  
Rich People

-Stanley L. Engerman, Gordon K. Lewis, Main currents in Caribbean thought: the historical evolution of Caribbean society in its ideological aspects, 1492-1900. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture, 1983. x + 375 pp.-David William Cohen, Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the people without history. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. xi + 503 pp.-Samuel Martinez-Maza, William F. Stinner ,Return migration and remittances: developing a Caribbean perspective. Washington D.C.: Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, RIIES Occasional Papers No. 3, 1982. lxvii + 322 pp., Klaus de Albuquerque, Roy S. Bryce-Laporte (eds)-Alfrieta Parks Monagan, Filomena Chioma Steady, The black woman cross-culturally. Cambridge MA: Schenkman, 1981. ix + 645 pp.-Sally Price, William Ferris, Afro-American folk art and crafts. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1983. 436 pp.-Lawrence E. Fisher, Roger D. Abrahams, The man-of-words in the West Indies: performance and the emergence of creole culture in the West Indies. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture, 1983. xxxi + 200 pp.-Erika Bourguignon, Stephen D. Glazier, Perspectives on Pentecostalism: case studies from the Caribbean and Latin America. Washington D.C.: University Press of America, 1980. viii + 197 pp.-Donald J. Waters, Marilyn Silverman, Rich people and rice: factional politics in rural Guyana. Leiden: E.J. Brill, Monographs and Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology, 1980. xii + 240 pp.-Bridget Brereton, Anthony de Verteuil, The years before. Trinidad: Inprint Caribbean, 1981. 309 pp.-Lisandro Perez, Louis A. Pérez Jr., Historiography in the Revolution: a bibliography of Cuban scholarship, 1959-1979. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982. xxiv + 318 pp.-Rebecca J. Scott, Juan Francisco Manzano, The life and poems of a Cuban slave: Juan Francisco Manzano, 1791-1854. Edited by Edward J. Mullen. Hamden CT: Shoe String Press (Archon Books), 1981.-Leslie B. Rout Jr., Carlos Esteban Deive, La esclavitud del Negro en Santo Domingo (1492-1844). Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Investigaciones Antropológicas no. 14, 1980. xviii + 806 pp. (2 vols)-Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg, F.E.R. Derveld, Politieke mobilisatie en integratie van de Javanen in Suriname. Groningen: Bouma's Boekhuis, 1981.-Suphan Andic, Anthony Richard Caram, Geldanalyse en centrale bankpolitiek in Suriname. 's-Gravenhage: Drukkerij J.H. Pasmans B.V., 1981. xii + 270 pp.-Ian Hancock, Orlando Ferrol, La cuestión del origen y de la formación del papiamento. The Hague: Smits Drukkers-Uitgevers BV, Series of the Universidad de las Antillas Neerlandesas, Departamento de Estudios del Caribe, Real Instituto de Antropología y Linguística, No. 4, 1982. 91 pp.-Nancy Stepan, Commentary: A reply from Stepan. (Reply to Review by Frank Spencer in NWIG 57:252-55).-Paul K. Sutton, A reply from Sutton. (Reply to review by Anthony Maingot in NWIG 57:89-97).

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

The Achievements of the Douglass Company in North America: 1758–1774

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Mays
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
The West ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Theatre History ◽  
A Company

On Monday, October 16, 1758., Hugh Gaine reported a novelty. “Friday last,” he told his readers in the New-York Mercury, “arrived here from the West Indies, a Company of Comedians; some Part of which were here in the Year 1753.” This brief notice, which went on to assure its readers that the company had “an ample Certificate of their Private as well as publick Qualifications,” marks the beginning of the most significant event in American theatre history: the establishment of the professional theatre on this continent. The achievements of the Company of Comedians during its sixteen-year residence in North America are virtually without parallel in the history of the theatre, and have not received sufficient recognition by historians and scholars.

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