Caribbean Newspapers from the Twentieth Century
Explore the history of the Caribbean and the people who called the region home through a range of twentieth-century newspapers.
Students and researchers can discover historical coverage of a wide range of events and stories that the people of the region told about themselves through newspapers published in the Caribbean. This material, containing the everyday histories and events of those living across the Caribbean, comprises newspapers from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti, and more.
From international politics and colonial and independence histories, to the environment, culture, and advertising, the newspapers within this resource cover a broad range of global topics with a localised view, with material in English, French, Spanish, and Dutch. The interdisciplinary nature of newspapers within this collection supports multiple areas of research such as Caribbean history, media and communications, politics, colonial history, and everyday life.
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- George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
- Advertising
- Colonial histories and independence movements
- Daily life
- Environment and climate change
- International politics
- Social movements
- Newspapers
- Professor Rose Mary Allen, University of Curacao
- Dr Douglas-Wade Brunton, University of the West Indies [UWI], St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- Professor Hopeton Dunn, University of Botswana
- Professor Juliette Storr, Penn State University, Beaver
- Business and Economics
- Communities, Peoples and Nations
- Gender
- International Relations
- Latin American Studies
- Marketing, Advertising and Design
- Migration and Border Studies
- North American Studies
- Political History and Science
- Sociology, Social History and Social Science
- War and Conflict
- Women's History
