Death by Fire

By Irving W. Andrae and Ireving W. Andre & Gabriel J. Christian

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973734760
• ISBN13: 9780973734768
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Pont Casse Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Death by Fire

This book was insightful into Dominica's racial history and the history of Caribbean Island people of color, of that era. Talking about attitudes of those in power and there resistance to change. It was an eye opening read ! D.Johnston

Illuminates the Uniquely Caribbean Style of Carnival for Perhaps the First Time

This book provides much-needed insight into the unique way that Carnival is celebrated in the Caribbean and, especially Dominica. Viewing the tragic events of February 25, 1963 as a prism for the larger social and political tensions then roiling the Caribbean basin (including the ascendency of Castro and the just resolved "Cuban Missle Crisis"), "Death by Fire" examines the burgeoning pressures for independence and Commonwealth status then springing forth in the midst of festering resentments among social classes that were (and, to some extent, still are) an inevitable vestige of Dominica's then slowly receding colonial past. Both Judge Andre and Mr. Christian, who, in earlier collaborative works have each demonstrated towering erudition, here "up the ante" by crafting the definitive social history of Dominica during the most fecund era of this Island nation's long history. What's more, in so doing, they have provided American readers with valuable illumination of the complex social structures predominating in those neighboring Caribbean states that have been, in substantial measure, trivialized by sterotypes of steel bands and Carnival Cruises. We look forward to the next collaboration by these two monumentally talented lawyers and men of letters.