{"product_id":"b0gx33tb16","title":"Martinique History Made Easy: The Essential Illustrated Guide to Martinique’s History and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartinique’s volcanic slopes carry a history of Indigenous resistance, plantation wealth, enslavement, eruption, citizenship, and an enduring Creole voice.  Kalinago communities, French colonization, sugar and slavery, the Code Noir, marronage, abolition in 1848, Saint-Pierre’s destruction in 1902, departmentalization, Aimé Césaire, labor, migration, and autonomy debates all unfold beneath Mount Pelée. French legal status and Martinican identity remain in conversation throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDid You Know?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know Martinique’s first Indigenous communities lived within a wider Lesser Antilles world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know sugar plantations depended on enslaved labor and a legal system built to control it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know the 1848 abolition of slavery changed the island’s labor system without ending inequality?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know Mount Pelée destroyed Saint-Pierre in 1902 in one of the most devastating volcanic disasters of the modern era?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know Aimé Césaire helped turn Martinican literature and politics toward anticolonial and Black identity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Did you know departmental status in 1946 brought legal equality while leaving major economic and political tensions unresolved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat This Book Includes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-  Kalinago resistance, plantations, abolition, Mount Pelée, Césaire, and departmentalization  marking decisive breaks in island life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-  Slavery, sugar, volcanoes, citizenship, migration, literature, and autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-  French legal status and Martinican identity  compared without assuming that one defines the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-  Artistic reconstructions  of plantations, ports, streets, and volcanic landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67933776281636,"sku":"YSL31119","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/817i9bxjBBL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793245469","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0gx33tb16","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}