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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma
RRP: $12.89$8.41'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the... -
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas
RRP: $30.95$27.40In 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... -
In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica by Lennox Honychurch
RRP: $12.89$9.02The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: $27.09$16.71WINNER 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... -
State Capitalism And World Revolution by C. L. R. James 9781604860924
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies 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 -
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild
RRP: $12.89$8.57Your 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... -
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout
RRP: $27.08$23.70Focused 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: $27.03$22.68Apologies 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)... -
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 by Trevor Burnard
RRP: $36.12$35.33As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop... -
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 by Douglas Hall 9789766400668
RRP: $37.35$32.74Thomas 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: $14.18$9.55Apologies 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: $48.96$43.23In 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: $25.79$17.22Advocating 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... -
An Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago by Bridget Brereton
$20.58Apologies 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: A History by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $25.80$18.95From 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 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: $24.50$20.19Apologies 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
$65.11This 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... -
The Battle of Hogwarts and the Magic Used to Defend It (Harry Potter) by Scholastic 9780702304118
RRP: $12.89$9.07Rediscover 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 Case for Caribbean Reparatory Justice by Ralph E Gonsalves Ph D 9781503210691
RRP: $11.55$9.61Apologies 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
$26.81Through 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: $15.47$12.60In 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: $48.96$42.14This 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
$26.90Provide 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... -
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays by Edouard Glissant 9780813913735
$30.10Selected 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... -
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $14.18$10.02Apologies 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: $109.65$98.81In 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... -
Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: $36.11$28.47Throughout 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
$26.90Provide 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: $21.87$18.38Apologies 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 -
The Nightsilver Promise by Annaliese Avery 9780702306037
RRP: $10.31$6.75An epic adventure featuring danger, dragons and a fight against destiny. "A smart, original, fantasy adventure" Dominique Valente, author of Starfell "Richly imagined and unputdownable" Vashti Hardy, ... -
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
RRP: $21.92$14.54The 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: $20.64$14.07Apologies 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: $14.18$10.02Ever 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: $23.22$13.09Apologies 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: $43.85$29.48Studies 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... -
Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion by Richard Hart 9789766401108
RRP: $48.96$42.16A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamaican rebels forced the British government to reset the agenda for emancipation and the slaves gained their... -
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
RRP: $55.41$52.63Eighteenth-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: $29.66$25.81Following 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... -
The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones 9780199754250
RRP: $18.05$13.98In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of... -
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller
RRP: $28.37$22.63In 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...