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...William F. Keegan Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People . By Craton Michael and Saunders Gail . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index . xxiii , 455 pp. Cloth . $60.00 . Copyright 1993...

... tables. As with volume one, the absence of a bibliography is but a minor frustration in a work that the authors can be proud of. They have provided the Bahamian people with a superb and eminently accessibly account of their past and its legacy, and have set a new standard for scholarship chronicling...

... on a pristine Bahamian beach in 1647 until today’s ebb and flow of fashionable tourists, not a single Bahamian has turned historian to record the full story of this handful of isolated islands, thrown upon the sea as casually as dice across a gaming table. When he came the historian was an outsider...

... enslaved Africans, Bahamian sailors, Cuban mariners, and English banditti sought refuge in the area. Finally, chapters 5 (“Becoming Southern”) and 6 (“The Armed Occupation of Fort Dallas”) analyze the slave community that prospered in the area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the flourishing...

... of tobacco leaf was not adversely affected by the island’s political instability. Tinajero meticulously describes the successful establishment of the Cuban cigar business in Key West, Florida, a crossroads of peoples and cultures (e.g., Cuban, Spanish, Conch, Bahamian, Jewish, and Chinese). She also...

...:511-13; and Gail Saunders, Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, reviewed, 73:702-3 Craven, Roy, notice by, 66:438-39 Creoles-Afroamerikaner im karibischen Tiefland von Nicaragua, by Wolfgang Gabbert, reviewed, 75:121-22 Crete, Liliane, and Ruth R. Olivera, Life in Mexico Under...