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"The Bahamas in American History" featured at next BHS talk on March 29th
Mar 26, 2012 - 6:15:56 PM
Nassau, Bahamas - The
Bahamas Historical Society with have Dr. Keith Tinker, author of "The
Bahamas in American History" at their next talk on March 29th, 2012.
Keith Lamont Tinker is retired executive director of the National
Museum of the Bahamas, former adjunct professor of Caribbean history at
the College of the Bahamas, and author of Migration of Peoples from
the Caribbean to the Bahamas (University Press of Florida, 2011).
The author draws on a wealth of tapped
and untapped primary sources and presents a new perspective on the
"Bahamian experience" that helped to define the self-proclaimed
American credo of "Manifest Destiny."
Tinker's book explores the many complex historical connections between the UNited States of
America and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Beginning with an overview
of shared early Spanish colonization, the book is the first attempt to
provide a comprehensive study of the impact of the sequential
development of the United States on events in the emerging Bahamas,
placing the heretofore marginalized history of the island nation firmly
into the orbit of Atlantic historiographical literature.
Among other
things, the books sheds light on the role played by the islands in a
series of significant events in the U.S. history. These include the
American Revolution, in which four of the initial official military
actions of the fledgling U.S. Navy comprised repeated invasions of
British-controlled Nassau, capital of the Bahamas; the American Civil
War during which Nassau became on of the main bases for supply of
vital goods and ammunition to the Confederacy; the intrigues of the
Volstead Act, which legislated prohibition but also caused the
temporary transformation of Bahama Islands into major transshipment
centers for the smuggling of alcoholic beverages to a multitude of
prohibition-defiant and "thirsty" Americans; and the significant role
placed by Bahamian migrants in the creation of the city of Miami and
other areas of south Florida.
The Bahamas Historical Society (BHS)
is
a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in Bahamian
History and to the collection and preservation of material relating
thereto. Its Headquarters, the former IODE Hall, was a gift from the
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). BHS is on Shirley
Street and Elizabeth Avenue in Nassau.
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