Political Parties of the Americas, Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies, 2 vols.: Anguilla-Grenada and Guadeloupe-Virgin Islands of the United States. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Pp. xix + 410 and ix + 454. $65.00/set.)

The Caribbean Commission, formally established on October 20, 1946, by the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and France, held a third meeting of its four national sections consisting of representatives of the above mentioned countries at Curacao, Netherlands West Indies, in December, 1946. Particular items on the agenda included 1) discussion of the activities of the Commission's Secretariat, 2) rules of procedure for the Commission and the West Indian Conference, and 3) appointment of the budget. Attention was directed to the implementation of the recommendations of the second session of the West Indian Conference, which was held in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States, in February, 1946. Such recommendations reflected the effort of the member powers to coordinate their activities with a view to improving the economic and social well-being of Caribbean inhabitants.

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Pseudelephantopus spicatus (false elephant's foot).

10.1079/isc.116565.20203482777 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eduardo A. Ventosa-Febles

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

West Indies ◽

The United States ◽

Herbaceous Plant ◽

The West ◽

The Pacific ◽

Open Ground ◽

Adventive Flora ◽

Tropical Areas

Abstract Pseudelephantopus spicatus is a herbaceous plant native to the tropical areas in Mesoamerica, South America, the West Indies and Latin America; it has been introduced to Africa, Southeast Asia and some islands in the Pacific. It is reported to be naturalized in parts of Florida and Thailand. P. spicatus is regarded as a potentially pernicious weed of open ground.. As early as 1948 all available evidence then is said to have indicated that P. spicatus, however interesting as an addition to the adventive flora of the United States, is a potentially injurious weed which should be extirpated if possible before it becomes too thoroughly established.

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Last Years

Ernst Kantorowicz ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691183022.003.0027 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 376-386

Author(s):

Robert E. Lerner

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

West Coast ◽

The United States ◽

Virgin Islands ◽

Ruptured Aneurysm ◽

Nuclear War ◽

The West ◽

Richard Nixon ◽

The 1950S

This chapter details Ernst Kantorowicz's final years. Kantorowicz died of a ruptured aneurysm in September 1963. Before this, he worked on a succession of recondite articles, attended the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy and the Byzantine Institute at “Oakbarton Dumps,” vacationed on the West Coast and the Virgin Islands, and carried on earnestly with his dining and imbibing. His politics also became more leftward from the postwar years until the time of his death. For a decade and a half he was deeply worried about the possibility of nuclear war, and he held the United States responsible. During the 1950s, he was bitterly hostile to Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. On the day after Kennedy's inauguration, Kantorowicz wrote the he “couldn't be worse than Eisenhower, ” although he did change his mind.

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4. A Constabulary Navy

American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780199394760.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 34-44

Author(s):

Craig L. Symonds

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Great Lakes ◽

United States Navy ◽

West Indies ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Manifest Destiny ◽

The United States ◽

The West ◽

The Pacific ◽

Southern Border

After 1820, the day-to-day duties of the United States Navy involved dealing with smugglers, pirates, and the illegal slave trade and so deploying the large ships of the line was deemed unnecessary. Also, the successful completion of treaties with both England and Spain demilitarized the Great Lakes and stabilized the country’s southern border, easing concerns about a future foreign war. ‘A constabulary navy: pirates, slavers, and manifest destiny (1820–1850)’ describes the peacetime navy activities carried out by small squadrons of sloops and schooners acting as a constabulary force on distant stations abroad, mainly in the Mediterranean, but also in the West Indies, off Africa, in the Pacific, off Brazil, and in the East.

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1. Drinking and temperance

Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780190280109.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 7-27

Author(s):

W. J. Rorabaugh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

West Indies ◽

Heavy Drinking ◽

The United States ◽

The West ◽

Temperance Movement ◽

History Of ◽

Viable System ◽

The Revolution

‘Drinking and temperance’ describes the history of alcohol consumption in the United States and the introduction of the temperance movement. From the earliest European settlers to the fighters of the Revolution, Americans were among the world’s heartiest drinkers, producing their own corn beer and importing rum from the West Indies. The British blockades during the war meant access to rum was lost. Americans began to distill whiskey from corn instead, which became the country’s patriotic drink. Problems associated with heavy drinking resulted in reformers creating the temperance movement, a cause that was then taken up by Protestant preachers. In the 1850s, evangelicals lobbied for statewide prohibition laws, but there was no viable system of enforcement.

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