CAR

Caribbean

Amerindians

Caribbean Amerindian Centerlink (CAC)

is the only resource that seeks to gather and organise all possible sites about and by Caribbean Amerindians' and publishes two magazines (Issues in Caribbean Amerindian Studies, Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology). The site contains full-text versions of historical books/documents Update information provided.

Area Studies

Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis M. Hanratty, editors. Caribbean Islands: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987.

TAS LIB Reference Section: Area Studies

CIA World Factbook, Portals to the World, Länderinformationsportal, mit offenen Karten (videostream), Auswärtiges Amt, Department of State, etc.

Colonialism

Commodities of Empire

British Academy research project - website contains many working papers on aspects of colonial trade.

Diasporas

INDIAN DIASPORA

Indo-Caribbean Studies Association: Selected Bibliography

Preliminary bibliography of selected sources related to the history and culture of people of Indian origins in the Caribbean and other areas of the diaspora. Its main purpose is to share resources, as well as to acknowledge the amount of work undertaken in the field and show the broadening research patterns developed by scholars in recent years.

Madhavi Kale. "Race and empire: the case of Indian indentured migration" Empire Online (vpn client necessary)

Coolies: How Britain reinvented Slavery

BBC documentary on the system of indentured labour
youtube links:Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six

AFRICAN DIASPORA

Collection of Resources on Slavery and Slave Trade

Digital Collections (Literature, History, Images, Maps)

dLOC - Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Caribmap - A Cartographic History of the West Indies

Caribmap is a resource for exploring historical map images of Caribbean islands.Very user-friendly arrangement of historical maps of the Caribbean islands on a timeline.

Collect Britain - Caribbean Views

Over 1,200 images, maps and texts from the 18th and 19th centuries reveal contrasting experiences of life in the former British colonies.

Digital Collections of the National Library of Jamaica

currently four digital collections.
- Picture Dis: National Online Album of Jamaica
- Jamaica Unshackled: resources on three landmark popular uprisings in Jamaican history.
- Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Slave Trade

Prestwidges of Jamaica

Collection of annotated antique maps of Jamaica from 1572 – 1910. Very large, printable and downloadable high-quality reproductions.

Other websites with maps and images related to the Caribbean can be found in Images (Art and Maps).

Historical documents (newspapers, pamphlets, books) published in Britain and the United States/Colonial America related to the Caribbean can be found in the section Britain and America: Historical (Con)Texts.

History

The National Archives: Caribbean Histories Revealed

The history of the British Caribbean is explored in this exhibition through government documents, photographs and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s and discovered during a cataloguing project at The National Archives of the United Kingdom.