Saint Croix Under Seven Flags
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St Croix Under Seven Flags
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Author : Florence Lewisohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
St Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) categories.
Saint Croix Under Seven Flags
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Author : Florence Lewisohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Saint Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) categories.
St Croix Under Seven Flags
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Author : Florence Lewisohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
St Croix Under Seven Flags written by Florence Lewisohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
The Eighth Flag
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Author : Stanford Joines
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-16
The Eighth Flag written by Stanford Joines and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-16 with History categories.
Cannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. Pirates. Visions of cartoon characters dancing around a cauldron with an explorer tied inside. Balboa gazing on the Pacific Ocean. De Leon and the fountain of youth. Pizarro conquering the Incas. Henry Morgan, in red, drinking spiced rum. Smoke curling around Blackbeard as his cutlass slashes through the air. ... all children's tales that mean nothing. Today, we do not know who any of these people were, how they came to do what they did, or why they did it. The struggle for power, freedom, and wealth that shaped the Caribbean for two and a half centuries has, since John Barrie created Peter Pan, been relegated to the same literary section as Barney the Dinosaur; yet, underneath the soil of the modern world, the roots are still there. I started pulling them up on St. Croix, and the roots led to more roots, and more. Islands connected, nations connected, and legends came to life. Officially, St. Croix has flown seven flags over the last 500 years. Before the American flag and the Danebrog, the Spanish came for gold, the Dutch to trade, the English to raid, and the Knights of St. John to be in charge. The French built a colony only to watch it die of fever. During all of those years, Pirates, Conquistadors, Freebooters, Filibustiers, Corsairs, Buccaneers -whatever you call them- ruled the Caribbean and called St. Croix home, stealing at sea whether they had 'permission' to do so or not, and paying no attention at all to whatever European flag was flying. It is time to recognize our eighth flag. It was black. This is the untold story of St. Croix and a Caribbean long forgotten. Come. Sail with me.
Saint Croix 1770 1776
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Author : Robert Amandus Johnson
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006
Saint Croix 1770 1776 written by Robert Amandus Johnson and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Flags categories.
Robert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of Saint Croix from 1770-1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American "Stars and Stripes." This occurred in Christiansted, St Croix in June 1776, prior to Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. This early "Stars and Stripes" was being flown from the American Brig "Nancy." The American Revolutionary Financier, Robert Morris had chartered the Brig "Nancy," on behalf of Congress, to acquire critically needed gunpowder in the Danish West Indies. Mr. Johnson resides in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, his adopted home since first arriving as an Ensign in the U.S Navy in 1959.
Queen Of The Virgins
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Author : M. Cynthia Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Queen Of The Virgins written by M. Cynthia Oliver and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created Creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
The Not Quite States Of America Dispatches From The Territories And Other Far Flung Outposts Of The Usa
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Author : Doug Mack
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-02-14
The Not Quite States Of America Dispatches From The Territories And Other Far Flung Outposts Of The Usa written by Doug Mack and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Travel categories.
“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.
In A Sea Of Empires
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Author : Jeppe Mulich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-09
In A Sea Of Empires written by Jeppe Mulich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with History categories.
A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.
The Americas 2 Volumes
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Author : Kimberly J. Morse
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-08-23
The Americas 2 Volumes written by Kimberly J. Morse and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Social Science categories.
This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.
A Vexing Gadfly
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Author : Eliseo Perez-Alvarez
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2011-10-27
A Vexing Gadfly written by Eliseo Perez-Alvarez and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This essay on Soren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media, church, university, and theatre as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.