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Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas
RRP: £25.99£22.89In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was... -
An Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago by Bridget Brereton
£15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435984748Author Bridget BreretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Heinemann International Literature and TextbooksPublisher Heinemann International... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: £21.00£12.43WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States-from before... -
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild
RRP: £9.99£6.64Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world 'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna Blythman It may seem like just a drink, but coffee's... -
State Capitalism And World Revolution by C. L. R. James 9781604860924
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860924Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 165g -
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout
RRP: £22.99£20.01Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in... -
Trujillo: the Last Caesar by Arturo R Espaillat 9781014999054
RRP: £20.95£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014999054Author Arturo R EspaillatFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 by Douglas Hall 9789766400668
RRP: £28.95£25.45Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of... -
The Iron Thorn: The Defeat fo the British by the Jamaican Maroons: Early Masters of Guerilla Warfare by Carey Robinson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202413Author Carey RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 322g -
The First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbados, 1636-1876 by Hilary Beckles
RRP: £37.95£33.51In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the... -
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism by A.M. Gittlitz
RRP: £19.99£13.35Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J... -
The Battle of Hogwarts and the Magic Used to Defend It (Harry Potter) by Scholastic 9780702304118
RRP: £9.99£7.03Rediscover the Battle of Hogwarts as seen in the Harry Potter films in this beautiful book, complete with an invisible ink pen with UV light (shaped like the Elder Wand), fold out pages and fun movie trivia! The Battle... -
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne 9781583676639
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676639Author Gerald HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Indigenous Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today by Arie Boomert 9789088903533
£50.47This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present. Using archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic data, it... -
Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £20.00£15.99From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the... -
The Case for Caribbean Reparatory Justice by Ralph E Gonsalves Ph D 9781503210691
RRP: £8.95£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503210691Author Ralph E Gonsalves Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five by Fernando Morais
£20.78Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network-a dozen... -
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony by Nelson A. Denis
RRP: £11.99£7.29In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President... -
Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Renaissance by Emily Zobel Marshall 9789766402617
RRP: £37.95£32.67This interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales.Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean, who symbolises key aspects of Afro-Caribbean... -
Hodder Education Caribbean History: Freedom and Change by John T Gilmore
£20.85Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations... -
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863928Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 240g -
North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970 by Moe Taylor 9781009305242
RRP: £85.00£76.60In this deftly argued book, Moe Taylor examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s. Beginning with the Cuban Revolution, which represented North Korea's first phase of major engagement... -
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays by Edouard Glissant 9780813913735
£23.33Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency. Edouard... -
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker 9781469658797
RRP: £29.95£29.13Jamaica 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... -
Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: £27.99£24.54Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to... -
Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests by John T Gilmore
£20.85Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations... -
For God and the CIA: Cuban Exile Forces in the Congo and Beyond by Stephen Rookes
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336240Author Stephen RookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
RRP: £16.99£11.27The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book. 'Both a brilliant idea and an engrossing book that tells... -
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz
RRP: £16.00£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451644074Author Amy WilentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Julia Sweig
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive... -
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century by Clay Risen 9781501144004
RRP: £18.00£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501144004Author Clay RisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience by Dianne M. Stewart 9780195175578
RRP: £33.99£22.85Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning... -
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
RRP: £42.95£39.95Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African... -
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor
RRP: £24.99£21.67Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race... -
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the... -
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 9780231186650
RRP: £28.00£21.80The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some... -
The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba by Michael Sallah
RRP: £14.99£11.53William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country,... -
Island People: The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
RRP: £12.99£8.56Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy and myth to expose the real islands, and the real people,... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by CLR James 9781788737906
RRP: £14.99£13.20The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against a backdrop of the French Revolution, they fought an... -
Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel by Christopher Hull
RRP: £27.95£18.06When 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...