Islands at the Crossroads
Title | Islands at the Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | L. Antonio Curet |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081735655X |
The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times.
Islands at the Crossroads
Title | Islands at the Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | Aarón Gamaliel Ramos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
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Empire's Crossroads
Title | Empire's Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | Carrie Gibson |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0802192351 |
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer). Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a panoramic view of the region from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. These fraught years gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, as well as the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion—European and American—but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Told “in fluid, colorful prose peppered with telling anecdotes,” Empire’s Crossroads provides an essential account of five centuries of history (Foreign Affairs). “Judicious, readable and extremely well-informed . . . Too many people know the Caribbean only as a tourist destination; [Gibson] takes us, instead, into its fascinating, complex and often tragic past. No vacation there will ever feel quite the same again.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost
Galapagos at the Crossroads
Title | Galapagos at the Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Ann Bassett |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781426204029 |
Natural History.
Eurasian Crossroads
Title | Eurasian Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Millward |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231139243 |
Presents a comprehensive study of the central Asian region of Xinjiang's history and people from antiquity to the present. Discusses Xinjiang's rich environmental, cultural and ethno-political heritage.
Criminal Justice at the Crossroads
Title | Criminal Justice at the Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | William R. Kelly |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0231539223 |
Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers, crime victims, criminal offenders, their families, and their communities. Strategies that focus on behavior change are much more productive and cost effective for reducing crime than punishment, and in this book, William R. Kelly discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization, and cost. He recommends proactive, evidence-based interventions to address criminogenic behavior; collaborative decision making from a variety of professions and disciplines; and a focus on innovative alternatives to incarceration, such as problem-solving courts and probation. Students, professionals, and policy makers alike will find in this comprehensive text a bracing discussion of how our criminal justice system became broken and the best strategies by which to fix it.
Islands as Crossroads
Title | Islands as Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Curtis |
Publisher | UNESCO |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9231041819 |
This book brings together information on various disciplines from the three main island regions of the world - the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean - to explore the ways in which the peoples of small islands have lived, and continue to live, in their culturally diverse societies. Leading anthropologists, historians, economists, archaeologists and others provide information on the complexity and dynamics of societies in small island developing states. It reflects the outcomes of a UNESCO symposium held in the Seychelles in 2007.--Publisher's description.