Martinique | Netherlands' Antilles |
Claimed by France in 1648; held by the Knights of St. John (Malta) 1651-1659, then returned to
France, sold to Sweden in 1784, reacquired by
France in 1878. In 1963, the French half of St. Martin, and St. Barthelemy were annexed into the Departement of Guadeloupe. In 2007, both were separated from the Departement and Region of Guadeloupe, and established as separate Overseas Collectivities. St. Barthelemy 1784-1978 |
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WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | Modern |
from CIA World Factbook;
Article : Saint Barthelemy, from Wikipedia;
Saint-Barthelemy (Antilles Françaises) from Wikipedia French edition;
Saint-Barthelemy, from Wikipedia Swedish edition Saint Barthelemy, from L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde, in French |
Historical, on the Windies |
A. Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main, 1860, GB |
Historical, on St. Barthelemy |
St. Bartholomew, St. Eustatius and Saba, pp.303-308 in Th.E. Lynch, The wonders of the West Indies, 1856, GB |
Links | General |
Category : Saint Barthelemy, from Wikipedia;
Categorie : Saint-Barthelemy, from Wikipedia French edition;
Kategori : Saint-Barthelemy, from Wikipedia Swedish edition |
on History |
Category : History of Saint Barthelemy, from Wikipedia |
Portals |
Memoire St. Barth, in French Historik, from St. Barthelemysällskapet |
Organizations |
Association of Caribbean Historians Societe d'histoire de la Guadeloupe Caribbean Contacts, from Caribbean Database of Documentary Heritage St. Barthelemysällskapet |
Historical Dictionaries |
Timelines |
Chronologie de l'histoire de Saint Barthelemy |
Accounts of History | Modern |
from Wikipedia;
from Wikipedia French edition;
from Wikipedia Swedish edition;
from History of Finland : a Selection of Events and Documents by Pauli Kruhse;
from St. Barths Online Chapter 6.3 St. Barthelemy and the Swedish West India Company, in : Leos Müller, Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce, The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping 1720-1815, Diss. Uppsala 2004 |
Historical, of the Caribbean |
Th. Coke, A history of the West Indies,
vol.1, 1808,
vol.2, 1810,
vol.3, 1811, GB Th. Southey, Chronological history of the West Indies, vol.1, 1827, GB (out of 3 vols.) C.E. Meinecke, Versuch einer Geschichte der europaischen Colonien in Westindien, 1831, in German, GB E. Regnault et al., Histoire des Antilles et des colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises .., 1849, in French, GB |
Historical, of St. Barthelemy |
Specific Periods |
Politics |
Article : St. Barthelemy : Politics and Government, from Wikipedia;
Article : Saint-Barthelemy (Antilles Françaises) : Administration, from
Wikipedia French edition; Article : Saint-Barthelemy : Politik, from Wikipedia Swedish edition |
Military |
Expedition against St. Bartholomew, p.51 in Historical record of the Eleventh, or the North Devon Regiment of Foot , 1845, GB |
Economy & Finances |
Article : St. Barthelemy : Economy, from Wikipedia;
Article : Saint-Barthelemy (Antilles Françaises) : Economie et Societe, from
Wikipedia French edition; Article : Saint-Barthelemy : Ekonomi, from Wikipedia Swedish edition Saint Barts Spirit Company, from Ministry of Rum Articles : Swedish Slave Trade, Swedish West India Company from Wikipedia Article : Svenska Västindiska Kompaniet, from Wikipedia Swedish edition |
Social History |
Swedish Colonies, p.395 in A. Cochin, M.L. Booth, The results of emancipation, 1868, GB Article : Swedish Slave Trade, from Wikipedia |
Ethnography |
Saint Barthelemy, from L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde, in French |
Religion |
Local History |
Institutions |
St. Barths, from Airline History |
Culture |
Biographies |
Others |
Neotropic Ecoregion, from WWF |
WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon),
from Rulers (B. Schemmel) |
Population Figures |
Election Results |
Documents | Historical Newspapers |
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library |
Modern Newspapers |
Le Journal de St. Barth St. Barths Weekly |
Newsreels |
Search INA for Haiti |
Image Databanks |
Wikimedia Commons License Plates, from Francoplaque, from License Plates around the World Airline Timetable Images : Air Saint Barthelemy Image Bank, from St. Barthelemysällskapet |
Archival Deposits |
Search National Archives (UK) for St. Barthelemy Archives Nationales d'Outre Mer Riksarkivet, Stockholm |
Constitutions, Laws |
La legislation (traite negriere & autres) : Saint Barthelemy 1784-1878, from Memoire St. Barth, in French St. Barthelemy : Code Noir Suedois 1787, from L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde, in French |
Treaties | TRAITE portant retrocession de l'ile Saint-Barthelemy par la Suede a la France, 1877, L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde, in French |
Document Collections |
Search : Wikisource, French edition,
English edition,
Swedish edition, for St. Barthelemy Departements et Territoires d'Outremer, from France GenWeb |
Historical Maps |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Sankt Barthelemy, pp.17-18 in vol.2 of Nordisk Familjebok, 1st edition, 1878, in Swedish, Project Runeberg Article Saint Barthelemy, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German |
Religious |
St. Bartholomew, p.302 in W. Chapin, The missionary gazetteer, 1825, GB Amerika : Schwedische Besitzungen : St. Thomas, Barthelemi, p.749 in vol.2 of C.Fr. Staeudlin, Kirchliche Geographie u. Statistik, 1804, in German, GB |
Economic |
St. Bartholomew, p.367 in vol.1 of P. Kelly, The Universal Cambist, 1811, GB Commercial Regulations : West Indies : Swedish Possessions, pp.641-642 in J. Blunt, The Shipmaster's Assistant, and Commercial Digest, 1837, GB Foreign Commerce of the United States with the Swedish West Indies, p.125 in I.S. Homans, An historical and statistical account of the foreign commerce of the United States, 1857, GB |
Geographical |
St. Bartholomew, pp.89-90 in The Present State of the West Indies, 1778, GB De l'Ile Saint-Barthelemi, pp.130-131 in vol.5 of E. Mantelle, Choix de lectures geographiques et historiques 1783, in French, GB Swedish West Indies, p.641 in vol.1 of A system of geography, 1807, GB Swedish West Indies, p.51 in J.A. Cummings, An introduction to ancient and modern geography, 1821, GB St. Bartholomew, p.424 in vol.3 of C. Malte-Brun, Universal geography, 1825, GB St. Barttholomew, p.45 in G. Long, America and the West Indies: geographically described, 1845, GB The Swedish Island, p.54 in R.S. Fisher, A statistical account of the West India islands, 1855, GB Swedish West Indies, pp.331-332 in Th.H. Prescott, The Volume of the World, 1855, GB |
Historical |
Of the French Islands in the Atlantic Ocean : St. Bartholomew, p.608 in vol.3 of Th. Salmon,
Modern history or the present state of all nations, 1746, GB Saint Barthelemi, pp.50-51 in vol.22 of F.M. de Marsy et al., Histoire moderne des Chinois, des Japonnois, des Indiens, des Persans, des Turcs, des Russiens et des Americains, 1771, in French, GB St. Bartholomew, Deseada and Marie Galante, p.320 in vol.4 of W. Winterbotham, An historical, geographical, commercial and philosophical view of the American United States and the European Settlements in America and the West Indies, 1795, GB |
Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
Residence Memoirs |
L. Hearn, Two Years In The French West Indies (1890),
posted on Internet Archive |
Institutions | Archives, Musea, Libraries |
Wall House Museum, Gustavia, St. Barthelemy |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Bibliography | General |
RHS Bibliography Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies), keyword Mauritius (site in German, most titles listed in English; hundreds of entries; publications mostly since 1970) |
on the Caribbean |
National Archives (UK) : Caribbean Histories Revealed : Bibliography Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography Bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology, from Florida Museum of Natural History Directory of Open Access Journals, search for Saint Barthelemy, Caribbean Bibliographie, from Memoire St. Barth Bibliographie complementaire sur l'ile de Saint-Barthelemy, from L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde, in French Böcker (Books), from from St. Barthelemysällskapet |
Online Libraries | General |
Gutenberg Library Online,
Internet Archive Persee (French search engine) Project Runeberg (Scandinavian) |
on the Caribbean |
Digital Library of the Caribbean |
Online Journals | General |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
On the Caribbean |
St. Barthelemysällskapet, St. Barthelemy Journalen |
General Accounts |
Jan Rogozinski, A Brief History of the Caribbean (1992) London : Penguin 1994 [G] Mordechai Arbell, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean, Jerusalem : Gefen 2002 |
Specific Topics |
Historical Dictionaries |
Albert Gastmann, Historical Dictionary of the French and Netherlands Antilles, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1978 [G] |
Yearbooks |