West Indies History

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    • A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    • By: Wayne Curtis
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • By: Andrew Porwancher
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish....

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    • By: Benerson Little
    • Narrated by: Todd Curless
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Successful sea rovers were careful practitioners of a complex profession that sought wealth by stratagem and force of arms. Drawn from the European tradition, yet of various races and nationalities, they raided both ship and town throughout much of the world from roughly 1630 until 1730....

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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies (Atlantic Crossings)
    • By: Jefferson Dillman PhD
    • Narrated by: Donnie Sipes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies....

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    • The Story of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Laurent DuBois
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world....

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    • Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
    • By: Stephan Talty
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,223 ratings
    • Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean....

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    • Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • Commander Cantrell in the West Indies
    • By: Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: 1632: Ring of Fire, Book 18
    • Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark’s daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • The World Corrupted from Slavery to Obesity
    • By: James Walvin
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? Find out....

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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • By: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

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    • A National History
    • By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
    • Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.

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    • The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
    • By: Vincent Brown
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the second half of the 18th century, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off the yoke of slavery by violence....

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    • Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,273 ratings
    • The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
    • By: Graham A. Thomas
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy....

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    • The Lost History of the Mayflower's Sister Ship and Its Rival Puritan Colony
    • By: Tom Feiling
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism....

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