Information on the Caribbean
Links checked August 10/11, 2000
This page is an attempt to gather material on the Caribbean that may
be of use to researchers, scholars or students. Since ALL links here are maintained by
other persons, we will not put asterisks after them as we do on our other pages.
Perhaps the main Website for Caribbean material is the Latin America Network Information Center
(LANIC) at the University of Texas.
A notable site is the Virtual
Institute of Caribbean Studies, based in New Jersey. It has the potential to
become a repository of papers on various aspects of the Caribbean (I am not listing them
in the section on papers below since they may not remain on this site for long). It
also runs a newsletter and maintains a good list of links.
There is a moderated network and discussion list on Caribbean Studies coming out of
Michigan State University. To subscribe, send the following command:
sub H-Caribbean your name, institution
to the following email address:
<listserv@h-net.msu.edu>
or visit the website. For other
Caribbean lists, see the results from L-Soft.
Background information on most Commonwealth Caribbean
countries is available at:
See also Social Science sites below for some sites devoted to
individual territories, and our own Country
Conferences. International financial and political institutions also have some
data and material. At the World Bank site
you can pick regions or countries for information and access a large number of publications.
The IMF site contains full text (Adobe .pdf) of many
recent working papers, though few are specifically about the Caribbean. The Inter-American Development Bank
site does not bother with the smaller Caribbean territories. The ECLAC site contains some documents and working
papers. The Caribbean Development Bank Website has
its Annual Report (.pdf) which contains some basic statistics on member countries, and
some staff papers. There are also various things on the Caricom site.
There are some UNESCO data, from the
current Yearbook and its database. Caribbean countries other than Guyana, Suriname,
and French Guyana are put with North America. Some statistics are only available for
countries with more than 150,000 people. Excel files can be downloaded - they are pretty
large. UNICEF has a fair number of reports, including
annual Progress of Nations, which have extensive statistical appendices, and
things on the condition of children. The United Nations
itself has a range of easily accessible data available on a by-country basis, or in global tables.
Data on health matters are available from the Pan
American Health Organization and the World Health
Organization. There is a site for the Caribbean
office of the UN Population Fund.
Population estimates are available from the Population Reference
Bureau.
Another international body, the World Resources Institute, has a good deal of material
on its site, including the complete text (384 pages in
print dealing with 150 countries) of World
Resources 1996-97, prepared for the Habitat conference; there are occasional
references to the Caribbean region. The site is searchable.
The Office of BNCCDE has collated some data on the UWI's
contributing countries and the University's impact on them.
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Romany claims to
be the first search engine devoted to Caribbean material. There are now also Caribe and Cariboutpost. There are of course a
multitude of other search engines - one that ought to be more reliable than most deserves
mention: the dmoz Open Directory Project, which utilises the energy of volunteer editors
rather than simply trawling the Web mindlessly. The link is to its Caribbean section. There are also several
lists of sites, including the following, which might lead you to something worthwhile,
though in many cases the sites themselves are geared to business or tourism:
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Specific sites (broken down into a few rough categories - check
around since some sites straddle more than one of these categories). There
are now a number of our own Country Conferences on-line, each with a variety of
papers on different aspects of the relevant country. A listing from which
you can reach all of them is here.
Agriculture/Fisheries (see also under Natural Sciences/Environment):
Fine Arts
History and Archaeology (see also Social Sciences below)
- Amistad, the historical event, not the
movie, by the Mystic Seaport Museum
- A site devoted to archaeological work at Caracol
in Belize
- Caribbean
Archaeology program at the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Caribbean and South-East United States
History and Pre-History Outline
- The Caribbean History
Archive - this seems to be mainly current press cuttings
- A brief history of the Cayman Islands
- Columbus and the Age of Discovery
- Columbus Navigation Homepage, with
maps
- Cuba's history through its postage stamps
(Smithsonian and San Carlos Institute in Florida)
- Cuban missile crisis
- Archaeology project in the Dominican
Republic from Indiana University
- Genealogy matters: Surname
list, run by Vaughn Royal; a genealogy page for the French Antilles with some 17th
century lists, newsletters, etc. (in French)
- Jamaica's National
Heroes, a site aimed at lower secondary school students using Jamaican Ministry of
Education materials
- Journal of
Caribbean Archaeology - an e-journal from 1999
- Kacike, an online Journal of Caribbean
Amerindian History and Archaeology
- Latin American
National Histories a project at Mississippi State University
- Maps and Charts of
North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Marcus Garvey and UNIA archive
- Martinique archaeology
(in French) but very little on-line
- Mesoamerian Archaeology with a
section on Belize
- Site devoted to pirates
of the Caribbean
- Population movements in
North America and the Caribbean
- Prominent People of the
Caribbean, a student run site at Southern Illinois University
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age:
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
- The World of 1898: The Spanish-American
War (Library of Congress page)
- The St Kitts and Nevis history
page
- Chart of the Atlantic slave
trade
- Pedro Welch's pages on slavery in the Caribbean
- The Turks and Caicos Museum has reports of
projects and some other material
- A time-line on US
intervention in Latin America
- Tutorial on European (mainly Spanish and Portuguese) voyages of exploration,
includes material on the Caribbean
- The BBC's page on the Windrush
and Caribbean emigration to the UK
Literature and Linguistics
- The Barbadian
Writers' Collective Online; they promise an online anthology.
- A page for Caribbean
Literature (post-colonial) and other aspects of culture
- The Caribbean Review On-Line,
so far only one issue/review of Maureen Warner-Lewis' Trinidad Yoruba
- The Creolist Archives, with a variety of
resources on creole languages generally, including several historical specimens of
Caribbean creoles, a couple of 19th century works on creole, and a paper on the origins of
French creoles has apparently disappeared; their mailing
list remains.
- A site devoted to peculiarities of Cuban
Spanish
- Ethnologue: the Americas,
for linguistics; similar data organized differently on the same site in Living Languages of the Americas
- Groupe Européen de Recherches en Langues Créoles
(in French)
- An excerpt from Jan Carew's
Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean
- Journal of Pidgin and Creole
Languages, partially on-line; site has some abstracts of earlier articles
- Mayan Epigraphic
Database Project
- Society for Caribbean Linguistics
- Sranan, a creole language
of Suriname
Natural Sciences/Environment
- Beetles of the Virgin Islands:
this database of the Beetles of the Virgin Islands contains records for over 34,000
specimens of 489 beetle species.
- Belizean 1998 Eco-Expedition page
- Biodiversity project from
discovery channel
- Some of the Caribbean
Coastal Studies Project material is now available again.
- The Caribbean Conservation
Association or their site at Mona
- The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency has
some fact sheets and reports
- The Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project
(1999) - a lot of documents on this site
- The UNEP-Caribbean Environment Programme
- includes a newsletter
and several technical
documents
- The Caribbean Geology and Tectonics webpage
- The Caribbean Journal of Science - on-line
from June 1997
- Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Global
Climate Change has several reports in .pdf format
- Caves of Jamaica
- A report presented to the US Coral Reef Task Force on the bleaching of Coral
Reefs worldwide
- Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in Jamaica
- Environmental matters at Island Resources Foundation
in the US Virgin Islands
- A page on the geology of
Dominica
- Global Warming in Central
America
- An extensive set of resources on Guyana hosted by
the Sustainable Development Networking Programme
- Hurricane forecasts by
Professor William Gray and others; a useful page
for keeping up-to-date with hurricane affected islands, run by Gert van Dijken
- Institute of Marine Affairs in Trinidad
- Kick 'em
Jenny, undersea volcano off Grenada - some old reports of activity; another brief
piece; see now the SRU
slideshow
- A wonderful Cuban Medical site
(Infomed) with 31 on-line journals, 7 bulletins, and some books. The general index to the site offers
various other things - searchable databases and lists of e-texts, among others.
- Montserrat
Volcano
- LatMOSS - catalogue
of neotropical mosses
- Mount Pelee
- the catastrophic volcano in Martinique
- Mycorrhizae research group
at UWI, Cave Hill, list of publications with link to CARIVAM - The Caribbean Mycorrhizal
Network and thus to general information in this area
- Revista Cubana de Medicina
Tropical on-line from 1995 - one example from the Infomed site mentioned above
- R-HydroNET: A Regional, Electronic,
Hydrographic Data Network for South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Two large
data sets are available to the general public: Monthly Time Series and Climatological
(site-specific resolution) Hydrometeorological Data Sets, and Monthly Temperature and
Precipitation Data Sets (30-minute spatial scale resolution).
- Sea Turtle survival League
- The Seismic Research Unit (St Augustine)
- The Sickle Cell Unit at Mona in Jamaica,
supported by the Medical Research Council
- SIDS, sustainable development
stuff from ECLAC
- Real-time streamflow and precipitation
data for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (and Central America)
- Tropical and marine fish
- The Mona Unit for Disaster Studies
- Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC)
Social Sciences
- Aboriginal statements - "Fourth World"
Documentation project, one or two from the Caribbean coastal region of Nicaragua
- The ACS site
- Amnesty
International's country reports on the Americas
- An Archival Survey
of the Records of the Jamaican and Trinidadian Communities in Brooklyn, NY.
- Belize Government fact
sheets
- Black Cultural Studies (not
specifically Caribbean) currently has links to various scholars
- Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink - various
things on the Amerindian peoples
- Papers written by students in Caribbean
history and politics classes taught by Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Moses Seenarine of the Black and Puerto Rican Studies department at
Hunter College, City University of New York, from 1998 to 2000.
- CARICOM
- Caribbean Indigenous Peoples
- The Caribbean
Religion Center, under development, dealing with voodoo, santeria, and 'spiritism'
- The Caribbean Studies Association
- CEDARENA -
Environment and Natural Resources Law Centre in Costa Rica, the link is to its Newsletter
#13
- The Cuba blockade; a US Government report
on the Economic Consequences
of the Sanctions against Cuba
- A fairly comprehensive Cuba site,
produced by students
- Another Cuba site, and yet another
- Decolonisation materials
from the UN
- Brief background information on the Dutch Antilles from the official Government site. The Aruba Cental Bureau of Statistics also has
some data and papers
- Papers from the Dominica
Country Conference, January 2001.
- Education for All
country and regional reports
- E.I.A.L: Estudios Interdisciplinarios
de America Latina y el Caribe, online journal from Tel Aviv
University
- Currency exchange rates for
African and Caribbean countries (based in the UK)
- Free Trade Area of the Americas -
status of various participants
- A Grenada Inter-American
Court of Human Rights case (in Spanish)
- A site for French Guyana;
its CCI has information on the economy - both in
French
- An extensive set of resources on Guyana hosted by
the Sustainable Development Networking Programme
- The Unofficial Haitian Home page
- The National Library of Jamaica site has a brief
account of the constitution, links on Bob Marley, and a few other things
- Journal
of Latin American Studies is on-line from volume 29 (1997), but only abstracts
and table of contents for non-subscribers
- The Latin American Economic System
(SELA) pages include several publications
- The Latin American Research Group
of the Federal Bank of Atlanta post papers and conference proceedings (but not much sign
of the Caribbean)
- A general Martiniquan site which also
offers personalised answers to specific questions
- An OECS site
- Political resources on the Net
- Rastafari Theology
- The official St Kitts and Nevis site
- Education in St Kitts and Nevis
- Papers from the St Kitts and Nevis Country
Conference, May 2000
- St Lucia Government Statistics
- SEDUWEB, Sustainable
Economic Development Unit for SIDs
- SIDS, sustainable development
stuff from ECLAC
- News on Sports in the Caribbean; Sports in the OECS
- Telephone numbers for Cable & Wireless
Caribbean countries
- Trinidad and the
Internet
- A general site for the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development
- UNESCO, Education for
All, Country reports
- Voodoo (Vodoun) and
Santeria links
- Wadabagei. The Intellectual Voice of the Caribbean and its Diaspora,
only tables of contents online.
- Youth Business initiative has some documents on small
business and tourism that can be downloaded
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Documents include:
History
- Archival documents for Columbus: Privileges
and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus, 1492; Selections from Journal,
1492; Letter to King and
Queen of Spain, prob. 1494
- Charter of the Dutch West India
Company
- Documents related to Cuba: US Recognition of Cuban
Independence, 1898; Treaty of Peace Between the
United States and Spain, 1898, by which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
Phillipines; The Platt
Amendment, 1901; The Cuban
Missile Crisis; Nikita Khruschchev: Speech to the RFSR
Teacher's Congress - on
Cuba, Moscow, July 9, 1960; John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba,
1961; United Nations: Cuban
Missile Crisis Debate, 1962; John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban
Crisis, October 22, 1962; Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana,
1962; Fidel Castro: On
The Export of Revolution
- Bartolemeo De La Casas: A Short Account of the
Destruction of the Indies, 1542, excerpts
- Olaudah Equiano: The Life of
Gustavus Vassa, chapters 2 and 5; the complete text, The Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, is now
available from Hanover
- Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US
Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965 - A wide-ranging critique of US
foreign policy
- Janet Schaw, late 1770s, published 1921: Excerpts from Journal of a Lady
of Quality , a record of a journey to the West Indies from Scotland, in the years
1774-1776. The excerpts here include a couple on Antigua and St Christopher
- Kevin A. Yelvington, 1999, "Dislocating Diaspora: Caribbean
Blacks and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1941"
Linguistics
Natural Sciences/Environment
- Lic. Alfredo Gutierrez Amador, et al., 1995: "Distribución y posible
competencia entre Melanoides tuberculata y Tarebia granifera (Prosobranchia: Thiaridae) en
el lago Hanabanilla, Cuba" Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical,
julio-diciembre, 1995 - just one example from the Cuban medical repository mentioned above
- Mark Catesby, 1754, The Natural
History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, "usually regarded as the
first accurate depictions of birds, fish, insects, and plants of the New World seen by
Europeans" - other works (not necessarily relevant to the Caribbean or natural
history) will be added to this site
Social Sciences
- Stéphane d'Amours, 1997: "Bode
Nasyonal. Vodoun et Démocratie". HTML paper in French
- Eduardo Aninat (IMF), 2000: "Growth and Stability in
Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for the Epoch of Globalization"
- Benedikt Braumann (IMF), 1997: "Unemployment
Persistence and Capital Shortage: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago". Link is
to abstract. Full paper from IMF site
- Kenneth M. Chomitz and David A. Gray (World Bank): Roads,
Lands, Markets, and Deforestation: A Spatial Model of Land Use in Belize link to
abstract
- Maria Dakolias (World Bank), 1996: "The Judicial Sector In Latin
America & The Caribbean: Elements Of Reform"- this link is to a brief
abstract. An earlier abstract and full paper are archived here.
- Lily Diaz, 1996: "A Structuralist
Analysis of Puerta Rican Santeria", part one of an anthropological essay
- ECLAC Summary
of Economic Survey of Latin Amercia and the Caribbean 1996-1997
- Marzia Fontana, Susan Joekes and Rachel Maskia, 1999 "Global Trade expansion and liberalisation:
gender issues and impacts" (86 page .pdf file; one of the six case studies is on
Jamaica)
- Hilaire, Alvin, 2000: Caribbean
Approaches to Economic Stabilization (IMF).
- IADB, 2001: Telecenters
for Socioeconomic and Rural Development in Latin American and the Carbbean.
Document and slide-show presentation.
- IMF, 2000: The
Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Institutions, Performance, and
Policy Issues--IMF Occasional Paper No. 195
- IMF, 2001: Developments
and Challenges in the Caribbean Region -- IMF
Occasional Paper No. 201
- IMF, 2001: Guyana:
Statistical Annex
- IMF, 2001: Haiti:
Selected Issues
- IMF, 2001: Haiti: 2000
Article IV Consultation and Staff-Monitored Program
for FY 2000/01--Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information
Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
- IMF, 2001: St. Kitts and
Nevis: 2000 Article IV Consultation--Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the
Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Authorities of St. Kitts and Nevis
- Robert O. Lagace, anthropological encyclopedia article on Bush Negroes
- Mitchel A. Leventhal, 1995: Entrepreneurship
and Nation Building: Proprietary Medical Schools and Development in the Caribbean,
1976-1990. Expanded abstract of Ph.D. dissertation at the University of
Chicago.
- Norman Loayza and Luisa Palacios (World Bank), 1997: Economic
Reform and Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean link to abstract
- Sylvia G. Moss, 1992: "Facilities for Teaching
and Research of Health Legislation at the University of the West Indies", paper
for PAHO meeting
- Sylvia G. Moss, 1995: Caribbean
Health Legislation : Preliminary Comments
- Sylvia G. Moss, 1996: "Caribbean Public Health
Legislation", paper given at the 4th Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Public
Health Association (CARIPHA), Kingston, Jamaica, November 14-16
- Odette Parry, 1996, "In One Ear and Out the
Other: Unmasking Masculinities in the Caribbean Classroom", Sociological
Research Online, vol. 2 #1
- Sarath Rajapatirana (World Bank), 1994: "The East
Asia Experience and its Relevance to the Caribbean Within the NAFTA Environment"
- apparently no longer on the World Bank site. The link is to a locally archived abstract,
from which you can get the whole paper
- Sarath Rajapatirana (World Bank), 1995: "Post
Trade Liberalization Policy and Institutional Challenges in Latin America and the
Caribbean" - this link is to a substantial abstract, from which you can get the
whole paper
- Ruby Randal, 1998: Interest
Rate Spreads in the Eastern Caribbean (IMF).
- Larry Rohter, January 30, 1997: "Backlash From Nafta Batters
Economies of Caribbean," New York Times
- Janet Stotsky, Esther Suss, and Stephen Tokarick, 2000: "Trade Liberalization
in the Caribbean" Finance & Development, June 2000 (IMF)
- Shigemitsu Sugisaki, 2000: "Challenges and
Opportunities: The IMF and the Caribbean" (IMF)
- Janine Sylvestre, 1995: "The Cost
of Conflict: The Anglo-Belize/Guatemala Territorial Issue" (Masters thesis,
University of Chile).
- Gary Williams, 1997: "Prelude
to an Intervention: Grenada 1983", Journal of Latin American Studies
29:131-169 - abstract is accessible to free registrants, text only to subscribers
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Material with a Caribbean flavour (or at least a Caribbean
origin) for courses can be found at:
- UWI, Cave Hill, Dept of Biological
and Chemical Sciences:
BL14A - Biodiversity I
BL14D - Introductory Genetics
BL21B - Community Ecology
BL24A - Genetics I
BL34D - Crop Ecology
- UWI, Cave Hill, two courses
in the Dept of Management Studies: Introduction to International Business (MS24A) and
Business Finance (MS28B)
- UWI, Cave Hill, Dept of
Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics - 6 Physics/Electronics courses and 10 in
Computer Science - not sure if anything distinctively Caribbean, but they're home-grown!
- UWI, Cave Hill, interactive illustrations (Java applets) to assist students of
electronics and related disciplines, courtesy of Dr Nyack
- UWI, Cave Hill, 3 philosophy courses: PH19B Ethics and Applied
Ethics, PH19C Greek
Philosophy; and PH29A
Epistemology and Methodology.
- UWI, Mona, Dept of Chemistry
including material on natural products chemistry and links to more traditional things
- UWI, Mona, CS11B
course slides etc.; CS20A notes; CS21Q offers course
notes in postscript format; CS22Q slides etc.; CS31A lecture notes; CS33Q various
material; CS34A
notes; CS35A notes
etc.; CS35Q notes; CS36Q/CS61S notes etc.; CS37Q/CS61T notes; CS61U handouts
We would be pleased to hear of further sites with useful scholarly material on any
aspect of the Caribbean, as well as corrections to the above information. Please
contact us here. We would like to thank all
those who have helped by referring us to sites.
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