Joe Biden’s October Surprise: Occupying Haiti
Joe Biden is considering launching another intervention in Haiti
Caribbean Project
Haitians Continue Their Storied Tradition of Assassinating Their Presidents
Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home last night
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: The Birth of Whiteness
White identity was forged in the crucible of sugar and slavery in the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Rebel Yell: American Nations, Spanish Caribbean
The plantation complex spread throughout the Caribbean, South America and the American South
Southern History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
A book review of Philip D. Curtin’s book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
A Galaxy Brain Take On The Modern World
How did the expansion of capitalism scramble the world?
The Barbados Slave Act of 1661
Racial attitudes in the English Caribbean
Founding Greater Caribbean
The British come to the Caribbean in search of riches
The Barbadian Empire
The Barbardian Diaspora spread across the Greater Caribbean
Caribbean Project: A New World of Labor
Barbados was the cultural hearth of the Deep South
Live Thread: Michael Cushman on The Political Cesspool
Michael Cushman on the origins of Southern culture
‘Golden Circle’ Weaknesses
The ‘Golden Circle’ was too weak to resist outsiders
Review: Michael Cushman’s ‘Our Southern Nation’
The rise and fall of the Golden Circle
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti’s Bad Press
Haiti Haiti’s Bad Press: Origins, Development, and Consequences by the anthropologist Robert Lawless can be summed up as another one of the “rose-tinted accounts of the […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti and the United States, 1714-1938
Haiti If Haiti’s apologists could ever be bothered to read this old book, they would be sorely disappointed with Ludwell Lee Montague’s Haiti and the […]
Caribbean Project: The Origin of AIDS
Haiti In the mid-1970s, Port-au-Prince in Haiti was a prime destination for American gay sex tourism, especially for male homosexuals in the New York City […]
Caribbean Project: James Franklin on Haiti (1828)
Haiti We’ve already seen Hesketh Prichard’s description of the Cul-de-Sac plain in 1899 in Where Black Rules White. Sir Spenser St. John (1884) and Hesketh Prichard […]
Caribbean Project: African-American Colonization In Haiti
Haiti There are few topics more dear to the heart of White Nationalists than the dream of colonizing African-Americans in a foreign country. I’ve spent […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Hayti, or, The Black Republic
Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as the most negative book ever written about Haiti. Spenser […]
Caribbean Project: The Barbados-South Carolina Connection
South Carolina The Barbados-South Carolina connection has come up in a discussion at Civil War Talk. There’s a thread over there that links to an […]
Caribbean Project: Mats Lundahl on Haiti’s Foreign Debt
Haiti Here’s a key excerpt from Mats Lundahl’s Poverty In Haiti: Essays on Underdevelopment on the nature of Haiti’s external debt: “The occupation put an […]
Caribbean Project: Who Is Mats Lundahl?
Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of OD’s Caribbean Project, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories
Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies which attempts to explain […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Where Black Rules White – A Journey Across and About Hayti
Haiti Hesketh Prichard’s Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti is a travelogue written by a British explorer who set out in 1899 to […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
Haiti Philippe Girard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation is easily the best of the most recent popular histories […]
Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: The Collapse of Caribbean Agriculture
Caribbean In spite of all that has been written here about the Golden Circle, the sugar plantation in the Caribbean has gone the way of […]
Caribbean Project: Treasure Islands
Caribbean Here’s an interview with Nicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens: Note: This explains what we […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]