Caribbean & West Indies

In The Cuban Hustle, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways artists, activists, and ordinary Cubans have hustled to survive and express themselves in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Whether circulating information on flash drives...

The 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...

Apologies 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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...

Winner 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...

Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Peralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199739660Author RolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint OUP Australia and New ZealandPublisher Oxford University Press AustraliaWeight(grams) 188g

A study of the establishment of the town of Port Royal, Jamaica, in the second half of the 17th century, the heyday of privateering. The town was critical to the successful British colonization of Jamaica and pivotal to British mercantile activity, but...

On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time "the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978123885Author Carlos Fernando AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Black Power studies have been dominated by the North American story, but after decades of scholarly neglect, the growth of New Black Power Studies has revitalized the field. Central to the current agenda are a critique of the narrow domestic lens through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995929401Author Simon KreindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in PublicationPublisher Library and Archives...

In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in...

Toussaint 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...

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly...

In this wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something inhuman, upending society as we know it. Shortly to be adapted by Netflix into Uprising The body of a young woman found...

The 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...

The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to...

Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals,...

In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at...

Based on historical research and more than 30 years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492724582Author Joseph Ewart LayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524754Author Matthew BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768265104Author Olutoye WalrondFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Olutoye WalrondPublisher Olutoye WalrondWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452281936Author Jan RogozinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 23mm

In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequent movement of people between Haiti and Jamaica in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034623Author Coli WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

A careful and thorough study of the Jamaican Maroons from the British conquest to the late 18th century. Choice This richly textured study of the struggles of the Maroons of Jamaica against the British colonial authorities, their subsequent collaboration...

The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews...

From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners and led to bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control of the lucrative sugar market.In this comprehensive...

In June 1802, the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture was captured by special order of Napoleon Bonaparte and deported to mainland France, where he spent the remainder of his life in captivity in the prison of Fort de Joux. But Louverture,...

Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648756712Author Nick Hibbert SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 634Imprint Asset Sales (Australia) Pty.Ltd.Publisher Asset Sales (Australia) Pty.Ltd...

"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." -Choice"[An] eminently original and intellectually exciting book." -William and Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486438634Author Mary PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718850484Author Sydney HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a...

This work provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the...