Find an original narrative about a Caribbean island/place produced by US or European visitors, travelers, missionaries, soldiers, adventurers, revolutionaries, officials, etc. written/published between the 1880s and 1930s
Due Sept 25.
- Use google books. You might find a full text downloadable book.
- Or go to the HATHI trust digital library on the web. Free full text books for download. http://www.hathitrust.org/
- Or go to INTERNET ARCHIVE https://archive.org/index.php
- Or go to our library and ask the librarian how to find this sort of thing
- Or try The Making of America Digital Library: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
- Or any other US/Americas history digital library that might have an out of copyright full text book of this sort for you to download.
- Or if you can WALK or WHEEL TO THE LIBRARY find one in the catalog and read it in paper.
- Be aware that these will have strange titles.
- ...and if you can't find one let me know!!
Read the book in one hour...skim it...skip the boring parts...read the good parts carefully, flip through it, figure it out...and write a one page discussion of:
- What is the book?
- What world produced the book?
- Who wrote the book? Why?
- How does it link to our course discussions and readings?
- What sort of views of the Caribbean are embedded in the book?
- Anything else you find interesting or relevant...this is an open-ended exercise
If you are a skilled researcher you can include articles published in the periodicals of the period instead of a book. They also included these sorts of narratives and sometimes very lively debates.