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Island People

2016-11-22 Travel
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Release : 2016-11-22
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Island People by : Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Download or read book Island People written by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. This book was released on 2016-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.

Okinawa: The History of an Island People

2011-10-11 History
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Release : 2011-10-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Okinawa: The History of an Island People by : George H. Kerr

Download or read book Okinawa: The History of an Island People written by George H. Kerr. This book was released on 2011-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Okinawa: The History of an Island People is] a book that answers the questions of the curious layman, satisfies the standards of critical scholarship, and is readable and fascinating besides. --American Historical Review"

The Island People

2009-03-01 Fiction
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Release : 2009-03-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Island People by : Stanton A. Coblentz

Download or read book The Island People written by Stanton A. Coblentz. This book was released on 2009-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the islands in the western sea, Xandu, land of the clear sky and dark green forests, was the most beautiful. There lived young Klantor, who love Lampra and fought to save her from the island's war-mongering elders, and then to save them all from destruction in the explosions of the volcanic mountains.

Consuming Ocean Island

2014-12-27 History
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Release : 2014-12-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Consuming Ocean Island by : Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Download or read book Consuming Ocean Island written by Katerina Martina Teaiwa. This book was released on 2014-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories, records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.

Island People

2018-01-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-01-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Island People by : Henry R. Danielson

Download or read book Island People written by Henry R. Danielson. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I think of what Julie and I did, it humbles me. We were right out of college, just married, working in a job I didn't care for. She got the invitation, I took a test, and we both accepted. I was of draft age, but there would be no deferment. Can you imagine joining the Peace Corps, where you would train to teach in segregated Macon County, Alabama? You and your wife, northern whites, in 1967, would train to teach in a segregated all-black school. How would you manage? Think of going to Likoma Island on Lake Malawi in Central Africa. You would live for two years on a two-by-five-mile island with no gun, no civil authority, no police. The island was home to crocodiles, spitting cobras, green mambas, puff adders, and other deadly vipers and often fatal illnesses, but no resident physician, just five thousand Africans and you. Think about teaching school to eighty adolescent African kids, forty in a classroom, none of whom had any notion of Western culture. What if your home were attacked by a raging African man whose family had been killed by white soldiers? What would you do? Ever thought about what it is like to be a teacher in Western New York? How would you deal with 125 adolescents daily? Imagine preparing lessons for five classes each day, grading papers, teaching, and then driving thirty miles to graduate school and back before a late dinner each night. Suppose you had summers off and you and your wife learned to sail, and on your twenty-fifth anniversary, you sailed the six hundred miles offshore to the island of Bermuda! Ever been in a full gale on a little boat at sea? We were island people, finding our way!

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