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Minty Alley: Black Britain: Writing Back by C.L.R. James
RRP: €10.70€7.68The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK'A novel written nearly a hundred years ago that brings the past alive... -
El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba by Lydia Cabrera 9781478018735
RRP: €35.69€32.73First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
€28.42Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: €15.46€10.23'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . ... -
Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery by Karina Williamson 9789766402082
RRP: €51.11€47.04Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery... -
Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad by Kevin K. Birth
RRP: €26.17€22.84Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island's ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trinidad, is filled with soca and calypso music. Soca is a dance music derived from calypso, a music... -
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 by Reinaldo Funes Monzote 9780807858585
RRP: €51.11€47.25This is the story of Cuba's forests.In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and... -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: €15.46€11.02In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the... -
A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Vol 1 1492-1845: From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera by Phillip Sheldon Foner 9780717808601
RRP: €22.60€20.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808601Author Phillip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc... -
The Story of Britain's Black Airmen by K. N. Chimbiri 9780702307423
RRP: €10.70€6.93Explore the fascinating, rarely heard stories of Black airmen during the First and Second World Wars. The Story of Britain's Black Airmen celebrates the inspiring contributions of people of African descent to British ... -
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker 9781469658797
RRP: €35.64€34.61Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the... -
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma 9781847925152
RRP: €23.80€21.44A revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the world. Famed for its equality and good health, sunshine and beauty, many celebrate Cuba, one of the world's five remaining Communist countries, for... -
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
RRP: €11.89€7.63In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of ten American... -
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
RRP: €30.88€24.56The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few... -
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon 9781642503371
RRP: €16.65€13.03For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award... -
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown 9780674260290
RRP: €21.36€18.18Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet... -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: €36.89€35.93The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the... -
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Hilary McD. Beckles 9789766402686
€50.86Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement... -
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
RRP: €11.89€8.09A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its... -
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn 9780807848777
RRP: €51.11€47.42First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society... -
The Rodney Affair and Its Aftermath: A 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Protests in Jamaica on October 16, 1968 by Ralph E Gonsalves 9781726701624
RRP: €9.46€8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781726701624Author Ralph E GonsalvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The Ultimate Cigar Book: 4th Edition by Richard Carleton Hacker 9781632206572
RRP: €22.60€20.98The Ultimate Cigar Book is a classic on the subject, covering everything from how cigars are made, to storage, etiquette, and accessories.Richard Carleton Hacker's category bestselling is often credited with helping to create a new generation of cigar... -
How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Pedro Ross
RRP: €21.41€17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679784Author Pedro RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
RRP: €15.46€10.23An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation by Philippe Girard
RRP: €16.65€13.76In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its... -
Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy
RRP: €11.89€8.09Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with... -
A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472
RRP: €23.79€20.87This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to... -
The Mother Of US All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons by Carla Gottlieb
RRP: €22.55€15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435650Author Carla GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 216g -
The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet by Jeremy R Moss 9781646631490
RRP: €16.60€11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646631490Author Jeremy R MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Captain''s Row BooksPublisher Captain''s Row BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Jamaica: Absolutely by Arif Ali 9781906190323
RRP: €21.42€15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190323Author Arif AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 1025g -
Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel by Christopher Hull
RRP: €23.80€15.78When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos... -
The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone 9780143119333
RRP: €28.56€19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119333Author John Paul RathboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 287gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira 9789766406608
RRP: €39.21€33.53Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their... -
Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples by Stephan Palmie
RRP: €44.03€43.76Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course... -
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth 9781469632872
€37.21In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, ""There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."" Lining's comments presaged ideas about... -
Urgent Fury: Grenada 1983 by Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070739Author Sanjay Badri-MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bacardi And The Long Fight For Cuba by Tom Gjelten
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116325Author Tom GjeltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 452g -
Island Songs by Alex Wheatle
RRP: €11.89€8.09"This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else" The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney have always loved and hated one another in the way that only sisters can. From... -
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition by B.R. Burg
RRP: €28.55€24.80Explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized character in history--the pirate Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of... -
Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives by Cécile Accilien 9781683403999
RRP: €33.26€23.50Approaching Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest...