Free delivery for purchases over 59.99 €
Slovak post 4.49 SPS courier 4.99 GLS courier 3.99 GLS point 2.99 Packeta courier 4.99 Packeta point 2.99 SPS Parcel Shop 2.99

Black Carib Wars

Book Black Carib Wars Christopher Taylor
Libristo code: 01363997
Publishers Signal Books Ltd, August 2012
The Garifuna people today live all along the Caribbean littoral of Central America, from Belize, thr... Full description
? points 44 b COMING SOON COMING SOON
17.58
Reprint Date unknown Date unknown

30-day return policy


You might also be interested in


The Garifuna people today live all along the Caribbean littoral of Central America, from Belize, through Guatemala and Honduras down to Nicaragua, and also in some of the biggest cities of the United States. For more than two hundred years they have preserved their unique culture and language--the direct descendant of that spoken in the islands at the time of Columbus. All of them, however, trace their origin back to the island of St. Vincent--Youroumayn in their own language--where shipwrecked and runaway slaves joined together with the local Carib Indians to form a distinct society, known to the European colonists as the Black Caribs. Relations with the French veered between conflict and cooperation but when a deal struck in Paris in 1763 ceded the island to Britain, the stage was set for the Black Caribs final, desperate struggle to preserve their freedom. What followed was a series of bloody wars punctuated by periods of wary coexistence in which a small but determined people stood up to the might of the British Empire. The product of extensive original research in St. Vincent, the United Kingdom and France, The Black Carib Wars combines a compelling narrative with new details of the Black Caribs' fight to stay free. It draws in characters such as Daniel Defoe, the first man to describe an eruption of St. Vincent's volcano, and Captain Bligh, who belatedly brought Tahitian breadfruit to the island after his mission was interrupted by the mutiny on The Bounty. It looks at who the Black Caribs were, why they fought so tenaciously and how leaders such as Tourouya, Bigot and Chatoyer managed to marshal a fiercely individualistic society against the external threat. In the wake of the revolutions in France and Haiti, the Black Caribs fought their last battle, ending in agonising defeat and decimation in British captivity. The Black Carib Wars recounts how the survivors were shipped off to the faraway shores of Central America and what became of those who escaped deportation from St. Vincent.

About the book

Full name Black Carib Wars
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2012
Number of pages 288
EAN 9781908493040
ISBN 1908493046
Libristo code 01363997
Publishers Signal Books Ltd
Weight 390
Dimensions 144 x 214 x 18
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's address

Login

Log in to your account. Don't have a Libristo account? Create one now!

 
mandatory
mandatory

Don’t have an account? Discover the benefits of having a Libristo account!

With a Libristo account, you'll have everything under control.

Create a Libristo account