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Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion by Richard Hart 9789766401108
RRP: £37.95£32.64A 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... -
Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing by Arvilla Payne-Jackson 9789766401238
RRP: £42.95£36.81This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaican. The authors analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, extensive fieldwork and interviews. They... -
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 by Michael Jarvis 9780807872840
RRP: £57.00£46.91In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles... -
The Black Jacobins Reader by Charles Forsdick
RRP: £27.99£24.54Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its... -
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore 9781803283814
RRP: £10.99£7.12A 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... -
The Walker Brothers And Their Legacy: Three Black Soldiers In World War One by David Gleave 9781974250325
RRP: £15.99£12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974250325Author David GleaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Trinidad And Tobago: Terrific and Tranquil by Arif Ali 9781906190378
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190378Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 1327g -
Title 1 (Set 6) by Becca Heddle 9780702308987
RRP: £3.99£2.87Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 06 Title: My Fort Focus: ar or air er Tricky words: I and pull into the my put you Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of phonically... -
Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History 9781098659400
RRP: £9.99£7.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098659400Author Hourly HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World by Jon F. Sensbach 9780674022577
RRP: £25.95£20.64Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American... -
Island Caribs and French Settlers in Grenada: 1498 - 1763 by John Angus Martin 9781490472003
RRP: £30.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490472003Author John Angus MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Jamaican Diaries of Robert Hibbert 1772-1780: Detailing a merchant family's involvement in and defence of the colonial slave trade based economy by Nick Hibbert Steele 9780648756705
RRP: £50.00£44.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648756705Author Nick Hibbert SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Asset Sales (Australia) Pty.Ltd.Publisher Asset Sales (Australia) Pty.Ltd... -
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent Dubois 9780807855362
RRP: £46.95£45.90The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by... -
Macrame Couture: 17 Embellishment Projects by GwenaA"l Petiot 9780764359910
RRP: £25.99£16.43Embellishments 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... -
Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World by D. A. Dunkley 9780739197417
RRP: £45.00£39.49In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley argues the point... -
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 by Daniel Livesay
RRP: £46.95£46.25By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family... -
Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti by Johnhenry Gonzalez
RRP: £35.00£33.91A new history of post-Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world's most successful slave revolution Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history... -
War of Lost Hope: Polish Accounts of the Napoleonic Expedition to Saint Domingue, 1801 to 1804 by Marek Tadeusz Lalowski 9781976944123
RRP: £7.99£7.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976944123Author Marek Tadeusz LalowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean by Chelsea Schields
RRP: £25.00£21.19Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curacao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil... -
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados by Richard Ligon 9781603846219
RRP: £50.00£40.56Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean... -
The Grenada Revolution: What Really Happened? by Bernard Coard 9781542657525
RRP: £18.50£16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542657525Author Bernard CoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
RRP: £20.95£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724674Author C.L.R. JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered by Samuel Farber 9780807856734
RRP: £37.95£36.15Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary... -
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy
RRP: £63.00£54.80In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social, economic, and informal political connections that... -
Haitian Revolutionary Studies by David Patrick Geggus
RRP: £21.99£19.59The Haitian Revolution of 1789-1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In... -
Churchill Comes of Age: Cuba 1895 by Hal Klepak
RRP: £25.00£18.94Churchill's 21st birthday and baptism of fire both took place in Cuba in 1895. This was the year he went on his first international adventure, wrote his first military and political analyses and engaged in his first dicey diplomatic mission. Finding his... -
Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia by Giulia Bonacci 9789766405038
RRP: £44.95£42.54In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past 50 years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as "repatriates". This little-known history is told in... -
The Haitian Revolution by Toussaint L'Ouverture
£16.56Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian... -
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal by Olive Senior 9789766404574
RRP: £44.95£34.63The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation" in 1950's England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850's who... -
Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure by Roshini Kempadoo 9781783482214
RRP: £43.00£39.64The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been... -
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nick Nesbitt 9780813928036
£27.90Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian... -
The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South by Demetrius L. Eudell 9780807853450
RRP: £42.95£39.03This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of... -
Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period by Sandra Riley 9780966531022
RRP: £19.95£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966531022Author Sandra RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Riley Hall PartnersPublisher Riley Hall PartnersWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 by Philip Wright 9789766401283
RRP: £42.95£38.95Lady 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... -
Exploring Shadeism by Sharon Hurley Hall 9781981029648
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981029648Author Sharon Hurley HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing by Diana Paton
RRP: £25.99£22.49In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on... -
The Caribbean before Columbus by William F. Keegan 9780190605254
RRP: £48.99£31.79The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and... -
Coercion and the Nature of Law by Kenneth Einar Himma 9780198854937
RRP: £82.00£66.64The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion... -
Cover Down Yuh Bucket: The Story of Sticklicking In Barbados by Elombe E D Mottley 9781494916398
RRP: £16.89£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494916398Author Elombe E D MottleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Vincent Brown
£25.51Winner of the Merle Curti AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Louis Gottschalk PrizeLonglisted for the Cundill Prize"Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the...