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 328 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: 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 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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    • 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 580 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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    • 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 16 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Comprehensive Exploration of Its Rich History, Vibrant Culture, and Impact on the Caribbean and West Indies
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 05-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Uncover the allure and depth of the Caribbean paradise known as Jamaica with the riveting eBook, Unearthing Jamaica. This immersive literary ...

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    • La verdadera historia de las hermanas Mirabal y su lucha por la libertad
    • By: Dede Mirabal
    • Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-10
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Four sisters (known as the Butterflies) founded a movement defying Trujillo’s Dominican dictatorship, and three died for their beliefs....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indigenous Tribes, Spanish Colonization, British Rule, Independence, and Modern Times (South American Countries)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

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