Red Florida in the Caribbean Red

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Kirwin R. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Early Years ◽  
War For Independence ◽  
Transnational Network ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Florida Straits ◽  
Labor Conflicts ◽  
The U.S

This chapter shows how anarchists in Florida played important roles in the Caribbean, the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s, the early years of anarchist organization in Cuba after the U.S. occupation had ended in 1902, and labor conflicts impacting the regional tobacco industry. Florida has to be seen beyond its geopolitical confines of a U.S. state and rather as part of a transnational network linked to anarchist political and labor struggles in Cuba and Puerto Rico. As a result, the chapter emphasizes the transnational dimensions of Hispanic anarchism in the Caribbean, especially the movement of people, and the role of anarchist media in transferring money and ideas across the Florida Straits.

Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Renken ◽  
W. C. Ward ◽  
I.P. Gill ◽  
Fernando Gómez-Gómez ◽  
Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

The Caribbean, Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed, and Serendipity

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-197
Author(s):  
Robert N. Wiedenmann ◽  
J. Ray Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Post War

This chapter reviews the role of expanding sugarcane plantations throughout the Caribbean in the movement of slaves, mosquitoes and disease, as world empires jockeyed for dominance in world sugar markets. It relates how increased sugarcane production and exports to Europe led to increased importation of slaves to work the fields. As the African embarkation point of slaves moved north to the Slave Coast, yellow fever and the mosquito Aedes aegypti came into play, though when England banned slaveholding, sugar production shifted to the Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and Cuba. The brief Spanish-American War of 1898, over control of Cuba, cemented the fame of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt but resulted in more deaths from yellow fever than combat, with the outbreak continuing during the post-war occupation of Cuba. Serendipity played a significant role in the subsequent discovery of the cause of the disease, connecting the Yellow Fever Commission, led by Major Walter Reed, with Cuban physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, whose early experiments pointed to mosquitos and others while a series of experiments by Reed's team showed Aedes aegypti was the vector.

scholarly journals HURRICANES IRMA/MARIA IN THE USVI: JOINT JSCE-NSF FIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND THE USE OF UAVS FOR GEOSPATIAL DISASTER DATA

2018 ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Dan Cox ◽  
Andre Barbosa ◽  
Greg Guannel ◽  
Andrew Kennedy ◽  
Chase Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Civil Infrastructure ◽  
Field Reconnaissance ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
The U.S

Post-disaster, rapid response research reconnaissance is one of the most powerful means to understand the effects of natural hazards on the nation's built environment. The structural engineering community's ability to advance windstorm design and construction methodologies is greatly informed by systematically documenting the performance of residential homes, buildings, and other civil infrastructure under actual hazard conditions. The 2017 hurricane season has been an especially unprecedented venue for such investigations. The season included Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Hurricane on record, sustaining 185-mph winds and Category 5 status longer than any prior storm. Irma left a path of considerable destruction across the Caribbean. The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico were exposed to Irma's full Category 5 strength, claiming three lives and compromising basic infrastructure in Puerto Rico, while delivering staggering damage to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Antczak ◽  
Andrzej Antczak
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rare Finding ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Southern Caribbean ◽  
The Caribbean

Pottery figurines made by the indigenous peoples in precolonial times have been a relatively rare finding in the Caribbean. A few dozen recovered across the Greater and Lesser Antilles cannot ‘compete’ with the thousands known from the neighbouring mainland. The lack of sound contextual and chronological data has severely limited the role of figurines in the pageant of the region’s past. Rarely addressed in the archaeological literature, figurines have been the focus of scant substantial research. This chapter examines what is currently known about precolonial figurines in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and on the Southern Caribbean islands. It discusses the precolonial archaeology of the region in order to facilitate the overview of figurines which follows. The case studies are ordered diachronically and include Puerto Rico, Cuba, St Lucia, and the Los Roques Archipelago. Existing figurine interpretations are addressed and the chapter concludes with suggestions for future research.

2. Establishing an American Navy

2018 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Craig L. Symonds
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The U.S

With independence secured, the American navy ceased to exist. The 1787 Constitution gave Congress the authority to provide and maintain a navy, but it was not until the emergence of Barbary threats to American shipping in the Mediterranean that the need for a standing navy was accepted. The order for six large frigates was authorized and then for further smaller ships during the Quasi War (1798–1801) against the French in the Caribbean. ‘Establishing an American navy: the Age of Sail (1783–1809)’ outlines the role of the U.S. Navy during the Anglo–French conflict, as well as the development of the gunboat navy during Jefferson’s second term to enforce his unpopular trading embargo.

Asian Dimensions of Caribbean Latina/o Identity and Cultural Production

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen López
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Asian Migration ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, intellectuals and politicians have focused on three main groups as foundational to national and cultural identities: indigenous, African, and European. Mestizaje or racial mixing as a political project has worked to silence the presence and contributions of people of African and Asian descent, while favoring intermixing among European and indigenous. Researchers in the fields of history, anthropology, and sociology have long debated the role of Asians in the transition from slavery to wage labor and produced studies on the transnational and diasporic dimensions of Asian migration and settlement in the region. However, literature and cultural production captures aspects of the Asian presence in the Caribbean Latina/o world that remain absent or underplayed in most empirical studies. Prominent Latina/o writers and artists from the Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic) incorporate Asian characters and themes into their work on history, migration, and diaspora. They explore the Asian dimensions of Caribbean Latina/o racial, ethnic, gendered, and class identities and pose a challenge to foundational discourses of national and cultural identities based on mestizaje and syncretism that serve to subsume and erase the Asian presence. Secondary migrations of Asians from Latin America and the Caribbean to North America has produced a small but significant demographic of Asian Latina/os, some of whom reflect on their experiences through essays, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and art. The cultural production of Asian Latinas/os resists hegemonic concepts of race, nation, citizenship, and identity.

On your knees and pray! The role of religion in the development of a metal scene in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Author(s):  
Nelson Varas-Díaz ◽  
Eliut Rivera-Segarra ◽  
Sigrid Mendoza ◽  
Osvaldo González-Sepúlveda
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Role Of Religion

Rates of Cesarean Delivery Among Puerto Rican Women - Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland, 1992-2002

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Varela-Flores ◽  
◽  
H. Vázquez-Rivera ◽  
F. Menacker ◽  
Y. Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Cesarean Delivery ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
The U.S
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