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168 p, Contains: Living with the sugar legacy: life on a Jamaican plantation -- Sugar as a commodity -- Turning cane into cash: sugar as big business -- Sugar and strife: Europe and the evolution of the Caribbean sugar industry -- Sugar in the twentieth century. The king is dead! Long live the king! -- Bitter future? Prospects for change.
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., 335 p., Contains the theoretical basis for understanding African spirituality organized in biblical format, sacred texts, philosophical and historical African tradition. In the first part the author focuses on the traditions and knowledge of the ancient African regions of Congo, Uângara, Takrur and Senegambia, Ethiopia and Zambezia. The second part of the book covers Brazil, the Caribbean, Suriname and the United States.
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391 p, Suzanne Dracius, author and playwright, was born in Fort-de-France and grew up in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris, where she spent her adolescence. She later returned to Martinique, where she now resides. A writer and former professor of Classics graduate of the Sorbonne, both in France and also at the Université Antilles-Guyane, Suzanne Dracius is the author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. In 1989, she published her first novel, L’autre qui danse, finalist for the Prix du Premier Roman (Seghers; Editions du Rocher 2007).
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Translation of: The pearl of the Antilles; or, An artist in Cuba.
Originally published: London, H.S. King, 1873., 308 P., "Cuba having lately become a prominent object of attention, both to Europe and America, I venture to think that any trustworthy information that can be given respecting it, may prove acceptable to the reader. I approach my task with no great pretensions, but yet with an experience acquired by many years' residence in the Island, and an intimate intercourse with its inhabitants. I arrived there in 1864, when Cuba was enjoying uninterrupted peace and prosperity, and my departure took place in the first year of her adversity. Having thus viewed society in the Island under the most opposite conditions, I have had various and ample opportunities of studying its institutions, its races and its government; and in availing myself of these opportunities I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to avoid those matters which are alike common to life in Spain and in Cuba." --The Author
