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Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 9780231186650
RRP: $36.12$28.12The 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: $19.34$14.87William 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: $16.76$11.04Shortlisted 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: $19.34$17.03The 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... -
The Life, Goals, and Achievements of Marcus Garvey by Dwayne Wong (Omowale) 9781514297872
RRP: $16.71$14.07Apologies 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: $36.11$31.14It 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: $21.87$17.87Winner 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: $20.63$12.58Apologies 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: $34.17$24.01The 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 Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History by David Geggus 9780872208650
RRP: $24.50$20.21"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... -
Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking--150 Vegetarian Recipes by Michelle Rousseau
RRP: $32.25$25.95In Provisions, sisters Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau share 150 recipes that pay homage to the meals and market produce that have been farmed, sold, and prepared by Caribbean people--particularly Caribbean women--for centuries. Caribbean food is often... -
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis by J. David Irwin 9781119667964
RRP: $61.91$56.00Circuit 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: $16.76$11.95At 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... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr. Ada Ferrer
RRP: $41.28$27.00WINNER 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
$17.89Even 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: $30.95$26.88From 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... -
Macrame Couture: 17 Embellishment Projects by GwenaA"l Petiot 9780764359910
RRP: $33.53$21.19Embellishments and accessories are on trend in the artisan fashion world, and macrame is the perfect method for creating contemporary garment embellishments. This book introduces the materials, the knots and techniques, and how to choose the best... -
How Things Fall Apart: The Slow Death of the Cuban Revolution - An Oral History by Elizabeth Dore
RRP: $36.11$25.30A 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... -
Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 by Philip Wright 9789766401283
RRP: $55.41$49.96Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica during a critical period of the Napoleonic Wars. Her personal diary conveys impressions of life among the slave-owning colonial gentry. The journal was first published in 1907.Book InformationISBN... -
Haiti: State against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 9780853457565
RRP: $16.76$14.25In 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
$35.26Apologies 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 -
Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History by Frederick H. Smith 9780813033150
RRP: $38.64$30.20Christopher Columbus brought sugarcane to the New World on his second voyage. By 1520 commercial sugar production was underway in the Caribbean, along with the perfection of methods to ferment and distill alcohol from sugarcane to produce a new beverage... -
Dominica: Nature Island Of The Caribbean - Second Edition by Arif Ali
RRP: $32.25$22.42Apologies 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: $29.66$25.81C. 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: $45.09$39.01The 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
$47.64In 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: $27.08$25.79A 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: $51.60$35.80The 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... -
Title 4 (Set 8) by Rachel Russ 9780702309090
RRP: $5.15$3.70Letters & 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... -
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius Scott
$19.35The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English,... -
Portuguese Jews of Jamaica by Mordechai Arbell
RRP: $34.77$19.36This 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... -
The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir
$66.49In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how... -
Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: $24.51$20.90The 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: $46.44$35.81From 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: $29.66$25.81In 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: $16.76$11.92This 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: $36.12$28.12Santeria 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: $16.76$11.61Apologies 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 -
The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Memoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944 by Hugo Vickers 9781976930720
RRP: $12.84$11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976930720Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Haitian Revolution: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History 9781540743930
RRP: $12.89$10.22Apologies 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...