Caribbean & West Indies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809097135Author Michele WuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991337415Author Josiah StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Josiah StewartPublisher Josiah StewartWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953747020Author June FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint CasPublisher CasWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 2mm

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the...

In her new book, Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781729813164Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781654186203Author Bernard CoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974493466Author Rodney WorrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935554257Author Yoani SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 245g

This is a study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century. William A. Green draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the...

Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award.In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592442348Author Cheryl L a KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock Publishers

The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations...

Join a wonderful cast of bouncy, energetic bunnies as they enjoy all their favourite activities! This joyous board book is brought to life by the incomparable Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and Zog. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489560Author Tomas Diez AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 420g

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garcia-Pena explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. Garcia-Pena constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad...

Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas'...

When 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...

In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873486125Author Maurice BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 450g

Native Americans supplied the maracas, African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs,...

Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars...

'A penetrating account of Cuban history ... [an] extraordinary book'MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT, US Secretary of State, 1997-2001'This is a splendid book, which narrates the tragedy of a Cuban, Oswaldo Paya, who dared to oppose Fidel Castro in communist Cuba,...

Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with...

For 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...

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable...

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996541145Author Frantz Derenoncourt, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Lightning Fast Book PublishingPublisher Lightning Fast Book...

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and...

Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams's 1944 classic, Capitalism and Slavery. The present volume represents the proceedings of a conference on Caribbean...

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The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the...

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in...

As contemporary Tambu music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curacao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambu,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727248524Author Bernard CoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955413060Author David K BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Doce Blant PublishingPublisher Doce Blant PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to...

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. ""Puerto Rico in the American...