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Special Collections: eBooks on EBSCO

Special Collections is a closed access area which houses all materials with a Bahamian orientation whether about the Bahamas or written by a Bahamian author.

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History

Bahamian Society After Emancipation - Dr. Gail Saunders 

 

White Minority in the Caribbean - Michael Craton

 

Slavery

 

Tourism & Hospitality

Caribbean Tourism: Visions, Missions & Possibilities

 

Tourism & Hospitality Education & Training in the Caribbean

 

Caribbean Tourism: People, Service, Hospitality

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Abolition and Its Aftermath: The Historical Context, 1790-1916

Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolution by Jane Landers

Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933 by Howard Johnson.

Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue by John D. Garrigus.

 Black Miami in the Twentieth Century by Marvin Dunn.

Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan and Corinne L. Hofman.

Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies by Mimi Sheller.

Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britian to the Brink of War by Aurthur Downey.

Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas by Amelia Moore.

Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America. Revised Third Edition by Talbot Bethell.

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas by Christopher Curry.

Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 by Cindy Hahamovitch.

Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music by Timothy Rommen.

Growth of the Modern  West Indies by Gordon K. Lewis.

Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History.

Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-century African -Bahamian Cemetery by Grace Turner.

If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Eric Robert Taylor.

Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World.

Inhuman Bondage: the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis.

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People; v.1: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery by Michael Craton.

Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora by Samuel Charters.

Migration of Peoples From the Caribbean to the Bahamas by Keith Tinker.

My Soul Is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas by Bertin M. Louis.

Natural History of the Bahamas: a Field Guide by Dave Curry.

No Bond But The Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton.

No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch.

People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of The Bahamas by William F. Keegan.

Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica by Dawn P. Harris.

Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 by Gail Saunders.

Sugar and slaves: The Rise of The Planter Class in the English West indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn.