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The Life, Goals, and Achievements of Marcus Garvey by Dwayne Wong (Omowale) 9781514297872
RRP: £12.95£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514297872Author Dwayne Wong (Omowale)Format PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner 9780812224603
RRP: £29.99£26.50It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this... -
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner
RRP: £16.95£13.85Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manque, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that's acutely relevant to the racial... -
Deep Indigo: Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte and St. Yves de Verteuil in Tobago 1933-1978 by Elizabeth Cadiz Topp 9781777342708
RRP: £15.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777342708Author Elizabeth Cadiz ToppFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Elizabeth Cadiz ToppPublisher Elizabeth Cadiz ToppWeight(grams)... -
White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution by Christer Petley
RRP: £26.49£18.61The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the... -
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society by Philippe-Richard Marius
RRP: £34.95£31.81When Philippe-Richard Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state... -
The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History by David Geggus 9780872208650
RRP: £18.99£15.67"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of... -
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis by J. David Irwin 9781119667964
RRP: £47.99£43.41Circuit analysis is the fundamental gateway course for computer and electrical engineering majors. Irwin and Nelms' Engineering Circuit Analysis has long been regarded as the most dependable textbook on the subject. Focusing on the most complete set of... -
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £12.99£9.26At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of... -
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth 9781469632872
£31.27In 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... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr. Ada Ferrer
RRP: £32.00£20.93WINNER 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... -
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois 9781250002365
£13.87Even before the recent earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian... -
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Diana Paton
RRP: £26.99£23.32From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The... -
How Things Fall Apart: The Slow Death of the Cuban Revolution - An Oral History by Elizabeth Dore
RRP: £27.99£19.61A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom up' Professor Linda Gordon 'A vital addition to... -
Haiti: State against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 9780853457565
RRP: £12.99£11.05In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the... -
Undead Uprising by John Cussans
£27.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222474Author John CussansFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Dominica: Nature Island Of The Caribbean - Second Edition by Arif Ali
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190255Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 1319g -
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Hogsbjerg
RRP: £24.99£21.67C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's... -
Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838 by Dave Aubyn Gosse 9789766402693
RRP: £34.95£30.24The British Parliament's decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807 had disastrous implications for plantation societies, such as Jamaica, in regards to the health and the labour of the enslaved population. Many of the Jamaican sugar planters could not... -
The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire by Carla Gardina Pestana 9780674737310
£37.38In 1654, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain's vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take... -
A Concise History of the Caribbean by B. W. Higman 9780521043489
RRP: £20.99£19.99A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of... -
The Wolfpack Way: Winning is an Attitude. And Hard Work by Wout Beel 9789401482196
RRP: £40.00£27.75The year 2021 was another amazing year for the Wolfpack, the dream cycling team of Patrick Lefevere. Davide Ballerini won the Omloop, Kasper Asgreen took the E3 and the Tour of Flanders, and Sam Bennett, Mark Cavendish, Remco Evenepoel and Julian... -
Portuguese Jews of Jamaica by Mordechai Arbell
RRP: £26.95£15.01This is the first comprehensive account of the Jewish population of Jamaica and its role in the economic and cultural life of the country. Beginning in the sixteenth century with the first Jewish settlers who arrived with the Portuguese, Arbell... -
Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: £19.00£16.20The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people... -
Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique by Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss 9780812241723
RRP: £36.00£31.98From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in... -
Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation by Natasha Lightfoot
RRP: £24.99£21.67In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the... -
BiografiA De Un CimarroN: By Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo by William Rowlandson
RRP: £12.99£9.24This Biography of a runaway slave is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of independence. The... -
Electric Santeria: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus 9780231173179
RRP: £28.00£21.80Santeria is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus... -
Dirt by Sea by Michael Wagner 9781760894061
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760894061Author Michael WagnerFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Haitian Revolution: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History 9781540743930
RRP: £9.99£7.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540743930Author Hourly HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer 9781610390989
RRP: £13.99£13.16Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort.", Financial Times The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos, In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis... -
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: £28.99£25.96Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life,... -
Title 4 (Set 8) by Rachel Russ 9780702309090
RRP: £3.99£2.87Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set: 08 Title: The Next Best Thing Focus: Adjacent consonants with long vowel sounds (example words: sleep park explains Casper) Tricky words: the he going to all of... -
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
RRP: £22.99£13.79For the last century, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative U.S. economic, political, and social policies. The devastation was laid bare by Hurricane Maria in 2017, which exposed how the island as a whole was... -
A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba: Revolution, Power, Authority and the State from 1959 to the Present Day by Antoni Kapcia
RRP: £14.99£14.28Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis by Documentary History 9781490919423
RRP: £5.99£5.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490919423Author Documentary HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground by Julia E. Sweig 9780674016125
RRP: £27.95£22.15Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban... -
The First West Indies Cricket Tour: Canada and the United States in 1886 by Professor Hilary McD. Beckles 9789768125866
RRP: £37.95£32.08The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour two years later to Canada and the United States. The tourists played thirteen matches during August and September; they won six, lost five and two were drawn. The first match was... -
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette 9781556526329
RRP: £26.95£21.17This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a... -
History of Mary Prince: A Slave Narrative by Mary Prince 9781494387266
RRP: £5.40£4.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494387266Author Mary PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...