{"product_id":"rambling-on-saint-martin-a-witnessing","title":"Rambling on Saint Martin: A Witnessing","description":"\"Gérard M. Hunt is a man without a country, trying to piece together in essays, editorials and scholarship a country of his own from three quite separate nations: French Colonial by birth and upbringing; United States by military service and higher education; and Canada by profession in teaching and scholarship. The three have by no means come together in a single national unity. His homing tendency seems to be towards St. Martin, but St. Martin is itself an amalgam - a clump of volcanic earth still divided, for no good reason, between two independent sovereigns thousands of miles away. He is a unitary citizen without an integrated polity. (...) Many of Gérard's essays are grave and penetrating trials. Many are sentimental - catching up with childhood comrades, sharing grief over a lost friend or relative. Several of these discourses are critiques of the wayward tendencies of French efforts to govern Saint-Martin from Paris through Guadeloupe. The most serious and extensive of essays aim at encouraging a greater sense of historical awareness and of community solidarity among St. Martiners ...\" From \"Foreword to Rambling on Saint Martin\" by Theodore J. Lowi","brand":"Trafford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47297045102644,"sku":"9781426900464","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_312a21b1-ddb2-4a2a-817f-2a260debde03.jpg?v=1764813488","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/rambling-on-saint-martin-a-witnessing","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}