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Caribbean Area

Here are entered works on the region that lies between continental North and South America and consists of the archipelago of the West Indies, the Caribbean Sea and the adjacent mainland regions, including Southern Mexico, the countries of Central America, Colombia and Venezuela.

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• Caribbean Area -- Bibliography
• Caribbean Area -- Civilization
• Caribbean Area -- Description and travel
• Caribbean Area -- Discovery and exploration
• Caribbean Area -- Drama
• Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration
• Caribbean Area -- Fiction
• Caribbean Area -- Foreign relations
• Caribbean Area -- History
• Caribbean Area -- History, Naval
• Caribbean Area -- Periodicals
• Caribbean Area -- Race relations
• Caribbean Area -- Study and teaching
• Caribbean literature
• Americans -- Caribbean Area
• Archipelagoes -- Caribbean Area
• Bibliography -- Caribbean Area
• Black people -- Caribbean Area
• British -- Caribbean Area
• Buccaneers -- Caribbean Area
• Collective memory -- Caribbean Area
• Decolonization -- Caribbean Area
• East Indians -- Caribbean Area
• Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area
• Ethnology -- Caribbean Area
• Freemasonry -- Caribbean Area
• Geopolitics -- Caribbean Area
• Human trafficking -- Caribbean Area
• Indians, Treatment of -- Caribbean Area
• Journalism -- Caribbean Area
• Libraries -- Caribbean Area
• Local government -- Caribbean Area
• Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area
• Motion pictures -- Caribbean Area
• Petroleum industry and trade -- Caribbean Area
• Pirates -- Caribbean Area
• Press -- Caribbean Area
• Privateering -- Caribbean Area
• Prostitution -- Caribbean Area
• Treasure troves -- Caribbean Area
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Caribbean Area

• Caribbean Free Trade Association countries
• Caribbean Region
• Caribbean Sea Region
• West Indies Region

• Supplement to Writings on the Caribbean Dependencies, 1928-1958 (typescript preprint edition; ca. 1962), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Selected Bibliography of the Florida-Louisiana Frontier With References to the Caribbean, 1492-1819 (Spanish Colonial Research Center Publication Series #2; 1991), by Joseph P. Sánchez, William H. Broughton, Eva D. Gallegos, Jerry L. Gurulé, and Rebecca Steele
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• East Indians in the Caribbean: A Select Bibliography, Prepared on the Occasion of the UNESCO-UWI Conference on the East Indians in the Caribbean, September 16-22, 1979 (St. Augustine, Trinidad: Library, University of the West Indies, 1979), by Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina and Kaye Larbi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New West Indian Guide (full serial archives)
• Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (in Dutch and English) (full serial archives)

• The Curse of the Caribbean and the Three Guianas (Gehennas) (Minneapolis: Pioneer printers, c1920), by G. L. Morrill, illust. by Lowell L. Morrill (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (4 volumes; London: Printed for the editor et al., 1795), by William Winterbotham
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for the compiler, 1799), by William Winterbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies (4 volumes; New York: Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien for J. Reid, 1796), by William Winterbotham
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Three Richard Whalens: A Story of Adventure (London and New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1897), by James Knapp Reeve, illust. by E. Frederick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Emperor Jones (Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), by Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Emperor Jones (Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), by Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, 2020), ed. by Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam (PDF with commentary at humanities-digital-library.org)

• Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Caribbee, by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Cup of Gold (originally published 1929; second edition 1936), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fortunes of Captain Blood (c1936), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)
• The Chronicles of Captain Blood (1930; published in book form in 1931 as Captain Blood Returns), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Fortunes of Captain Blood (c1936), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)
• The Chronicles of Captain Blood (1930; published in book form in 1931 as Captain Blood Returns), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Privateer (c1952), by Gordon Daviot (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Jorge I. Domínguez (page images at Pitt)

• The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of Those Bold and Daring Freebooters, Chiefly Along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies, and in the Great South Sea, Succeeding the Civil Wars in England (new edition, with notes on piracy off the New England coast; Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin; Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1856), by A. O. Exquemelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. O. Exquemelin, ed. by H. Powell, contrib. by Basil Ringrose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (page images at Pitt)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• New West Indian Guide (full serial archives)
• Caribbean Studies (partial serial archives)
• Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (in Dutch and English) (full serial archives)

• Caribbean Studies (partial serial archives)

• REHMLAC: Revista de Estudios Históicos de la Masonería Latinoamericana y Caribeña (in Spanish and other languages; 2009-) (full serial archives)

• Impressions of a White Tourist in the Caribbean (New York: Truth Seeker Co., 1961), by Byram Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Library and Bibliographic Activities in the Caribbean (8th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials working paper #10; 1963), by Enid M. Baa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, 2020), ed. by Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam (PDF with commentary at humanities-digital-library.org)

• Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, 2020), ed. by Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam (PDF with commentary at humanities-digital-library.org)

• The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (page images at Pitt)

• Death of a Revolution: An Analysis of the Grenada Tragedy and the U.S. Invasion / Muerte de una Revolución: Una Análisis de la Tragedia de Granada y de la Invasión Norteamericana (bilingual English and Spanish edition; Washington: EPICA, 1984), by Cathy Sunshine and Philip Wheaton
  • English section: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Spanish section: multiple formats at archive.org

• In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas (revised edition, 2005), by DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, ed. by Elissa Steglich and David E. Guinn (PDF at DePaul)

• The Tears of the Indians: Being an Historical and True Account of the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of Above Twenty Millions of Innocent People, Committed By the Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, Etc., As Also, in the Continent of Mexico, Peru, and Other Places of the West-Indies, to the Total Destruction of Those Countries (facsimile reprint; original London: Printed by J. C. for N. Brook, 1656), by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by John Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Juliette Storr (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Simon Gikandi (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sheri-Marie Harrison (PDF at Ohio State)

• Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Juliette Storr (PDF at University of Calgary)

• In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas (revised edition, 2005), by DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, ed. by Elissa Steglich and David E. Guinn (PDF at DePaul)

• Diving for Pleasure and Treasure (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., c1960), by Clay Blair, illust. by Walter Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by David Jay Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig (PDF at University of Calgary)

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