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Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity by Margaret Randall
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 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... -
History of Cuba: A Captivating Guide to Cuban History, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro by Captivating History 9781729813164
RRP: £13.67£11.49Apologies 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... -
Skyred: A Tale Of Two Revolutions by Bernard Coard 9781654186203
RRP: £19.50£17.26Apologies 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)... -
Pan-Africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-Century Pan-African Formations in Barbados by Rodney Worrell 9780974493466
RRP: £12.00£10.37Apologies 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)... -
Havana Real: One Blogger Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today by Yoani Sanchez 9781935554257
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies 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 -
British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment 1830-1865 by William A. Green 9780198202783
£46.76This 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... -
Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad by Dave Ramsaran 9781496828255
RRP: £34.95£21.82Winner 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... -
Michael Manley and Democratic Socialism: Political Leadership and Ideology in Jamaica by Cheryl L a King 9781592442348
RRP: £12.00£9.10Apologies 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 Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 by Eric Paul Roorda
RRP: £23.99£21.24The 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... -
Happy Bunnies (BB) by Frantz Wittkamp 9780702314360 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£3.91Join 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. ... -
October 1962: The Missile Crisis as Seen from Cuba by Tomas Diez Acosta 9780873489560
£15.21Apologies 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 -
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction by Lorgia Garcia-Pena
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 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... -
The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro by Fidel Castro 9781560259831
£13.79Early 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'... -
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 Declarations of Havana by Fidel Castro
RRP: £9.99£8.17In 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... -
Maurice Bishop Speaks: Grenada Revolution, 1979-83 by Maurice Bishop
RRP: £21.00£15.18Apologies 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 -
Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana by Maya Roy 9781558762824
RRP: £26.95£21.65Native 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 by Leslie Bethell 9780521436823
RRP: £19.99£17.13Cuba: 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... -
Give Me Liberty: Oswaldo Paya and the Struggle to Free Cuba by David E. Hoffman
RRP: £25.00£17.59'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,... -
The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Eric Paul Roorda
RRP: £23.99£21.24Despite 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... -
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
RRP: £22.99£17.15For 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... -
Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue by Paul Cheney 9780226679259
RRP: £28.00£27.39In 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... -
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Richard S. Dunn 9780674735361
£43.62Forty 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,... -
Haiti: The First Black Republic by Jr Frantz Derenoncourt 9780996541145
RRP: £20.00£19.84Apologies 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... -
Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime by James E. McClellan
RRP: £28.00£27.79How 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... -
The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo F. Gomez Zuluaga 9781469630878
£33.22Opening 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... -
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams by Barbara Lewis Solow 9780521533201
RRP: £44.99£38.14Modern 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... -
Caribbeana: Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies; 5 by Vere Langford Ed Cn Oliver 9781014530479
RRP: £29.95£26.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century by Ida Altman
RRP: £32.00£28.21The 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... -
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A. Schneider 9781469645353
RRP: £42.95£39.38In 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... -
Tambu: Curacao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory by Nanette de Jong
RRP: £19.99£17.54As 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,... -
Forward Ever: Journey To A New Grenada by Bernard Coard 9781727248524
RRP: £19.50£17.00Apologies 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... -
Tread Carefully on the Sea by David K Bryant 9781955413060
RRP: £24.97£16.10Apologies 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)... -
No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War by Ariel Mae Lambe 9781469652856
RRP: £37.95£35.46Vividly 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... -
Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since 1898 by Rafael Bernabe 9780807859544
RRP: £39.95£33.62Offering 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... -
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty 9780307236616
RRP: £17.00£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307236616Author Stephan TaltyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery by Eric Williams 9781442231399
RRP: £105.00£91.73In 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... -
Cuba Libre: A 500-Year Quest for Independence by Philip Brenner 9780742566705
RRP: £43.00£38.18This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus's first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive... -
Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66 by Mary Chamberlain 9780719078767
RRP: £85.00£74.51This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety... -
The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980 by Michael J. Bustamante
RRP: £25.99£20.84What does the Cuban Revolution look like "from within?" This volume proposes that scholars and observers of Cuba have too long looked elsewhere-from the United States to the Soviet Union-to write the island's post-1959 history. Drawing on previously...