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302 p, Outlines the key research in Caribbean studies from history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and folklore, examining classic ethnographies as well as new scholarship. Highlights the major concepts and debates in the anthropology and history of the Caribbean, including its unique Anglo, French, and Hispanic communities. Offers an overview of the strong traditions of art, literature, music, dance, and architecture in the Caribbean.
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246 p, Machine generated contents note: PART I lie Era of Catholic Exclusivism, 1815-1868 -- I Religion and Political Struggle 9 -- 2 The Roman Catholic Grip 24 -- 3 Cryplo-Proiesiams and Fseudo-Caihoiics 48 -- PART II ihe Revolutionary Cycle, 1868-1898 -- 4 Warand Religion 75 -- 5 Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations, -- 1869-1898 91 -- 6 Cuba's First Protestant Congregations, 1871-1883 116 -- 7 Revolution, Exile, and Cuban Protestantism, -- 1868-1898 130 -- Epilogue 162 -- Notes 171 -- Bibliography 219 -- Index 239.
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202 p, Examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.
Campbell discusses the history of education in the Dominican Republic over a long period of time, from the inception of Spanish colonization in Hispaniola to the achievement of its first real independence in 1844. He seeks not to enter into postmodernist debates about the viability of the traditional historical narrative but to search for truth about what really happened through the traditional use of the sources.;
