The Making Of The Bahamas
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Author | : Don Maples |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780582848832 |
This brand new edition of the leading History text for the Bahamas has been revised and updated to cover recent curriculum development.
Author | : Dave Currie |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1501738038 |
Take this book with you on your next trip to the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands or keep it close to hand in your travel library. The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensive coverage of the terrestrial and coastal flora and fauna on the islands of the Bahamas archipelago, as well as of the region's natural history and ecology. Readers will gain an appreciation for the importance of conserving the diverse lifeforms on these special Caribbean islands. A detailed introduction to the history, geology, and climate of the islands. Beautifully illustrated, with more than seven hundred color photographs showcasing the diverse plants, fungi, and animals found on the Bahamian Archipelago.
Author | : Paul Albury |
Publisher | : MacMillan Education, Limited |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780333171325 |
Author | : Philip Cash |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This secondary school text has been designed to include all the important topics in Bahamian history from the Arawaks to the present day.
Author | : Sandra Riley |
Publisher | : RILEY HALL |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780966531022 |
Supporters of the British Crown found life in the Colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile.
Author | : Ministry of Education Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-11-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780435988029 |
The ideal companion for students taking the Bahamas GCSE English language examination. Provide expert guidance on how to master the skills necessary in the examination with this companion which has been written in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture. - Build and consolidate knowledge with an opening chapter summarising current grammar and sentence construction, correct spelling, word choice and punctuation. - Prepare students for the exam with chapters providing guidance on Continuous Writing (Paper 1), Listening Skills (Paper 2) and Comprehension and Directed Writing (Papers 3and 4). - Send students into the exam with confidence with activities to test skills, 'exam-type' exercises, student answers and comments from examiners, as well as practice examination papers and answers.
Author | : Charles D. Ross |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496831365 |
On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking—from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor—were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured. The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.
Author | : Marvin W. Hunt |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781480085497 |
Marvin Hunt's remarkable Among the Children of the Sun takes readers to an island nation that millions of people visit yearly, but few actually know much about. Bypassing the well-known resorts of Nassau and Freeport, he concentrates on life in the other islands of the Bahamas—the Family Islands. Hunt explores the geology of these islands; the racial, social and political history of the nation; its storied history as an eighteenth-century haven for pirates; its customs, its food and music; its religious traditions; and the challenges it faces as an emerging nation, in a lively narrative, reminiscent of Paul Theroux, that spans fifteen years of travel. Richly detailed, full of lively encounters with people and places, Among the Children of the Sun does what no other book about the Bahamas has done: take readers beyond the name tags and smiling faces of those who service the tourist industry, into their real lives, conveying the triumphs and tragedies of ordinary people living in an extraordinary landscape. It is a work of self-discovery, too, as the author comes to terms with his own evolving life.
Author | : Timothy Rommen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520948750 |
This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, Rommen finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, Funky Nassau illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
Author | : Bob Morris |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429907258 |
Two years in a Florida federal prison on bogus charges has made former Miami Dophins linebacker, Zack Chasteen, stir crazy. The first step toward getting his life back together is meeting up with his beautiful magazine mogul girlfriend, Barbara, on Harbor Island in the Bahamas. But making it out of Florida proves to be more trouble than a gator with a toothache--and even deadlier. Zack barely leaves the state alive before he discovers Barbara's been kidnapped and her ex-lover, a photographer, murdered. Once again trouble has come knocking on Zack's door. But this time he's fighting back, with the help of a Royal Bahamanian police superintendent, his trusted mystical Taino Indian friend Boggy, and a cast of the most colorful characters ever to step into the warm Bahama sun. As unpredictable as island trade winds, Bahamarama twists and turns its way to a stunning conclusion and announces the arrival of a writer who is sure to surprise and delight mystery fans for years to come. Bahamarama is a 2005 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.