Caribbean & West Indies

As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition...

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547154265Author Trevor UdennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands. The story has been passed through generations for over two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of...

Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave...

The phrase ""I am Catholic, but I am Jewish"" may seem contradictory to some, but in the Caribbean islands and the countries of the Caribbean periphery, there are hundreds if not thousands of individuals who identify themselves in this manner and can...

This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighbouring territories in similar circumstances...

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781084115101Author Adrian FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

The process of real-life communication is dynamic and complex. Learn why and how so many prominent communication theories do not square off well with the complexity of real-life communication, including the Uncertainty Reduction Theory, the Communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878089628Author Webster DickFormat HardbackImprint William Carey Library PublishersPublisher William Carey Library PublishersWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780747235033Author Carolyn HouganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 200g

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Archie loves camping, he loves the fresh air. The sounds in the night, the wind in his hair. The warmth of the fire, the lovely smoke scent. But more than all that, Archie just loves his tent. When everyone else thinks that Archie's little tent looks...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420658988Author Carlos FerreiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Alianza EditorialPublisher Alianza Editorial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135232613Author John BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pearson Education (US)Publisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615280882Author Monte RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Monterose.BizPublisher Monterose.BizWeight(grams) 152g

Joerg Rubbert's series of photos about Paris, taken over a period of 30 years between 1988 and 2019, views the city and its people from different perspectives. His images feature bourgeois neighbourhoods and majestic public squares as well as run-down...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838415945Author Rodrigo Blanco CalderonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UK

This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the...

A month after solving her first murder (and almost getting killed in the process), Maggie Johnson and her soul brother serge Popov are hoping for some peace an quiet to figure out...well, everything. But the dead wait for no one. Especially a dead guy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760760564Author MPavilionFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954412460Author Jonathan ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Source Point PressPublisher Source Point Press

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 5 Scholastic Set: 11 Title: Delivery! Focus: y (as in 'delivery'), ea (as in 'Head'), y (as in 'try'), le (as in 'inflatable'), al (as in 'Petal'), c (as in 'parcel'), ve (as in...

What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? To answer that complex question, Deniz Cosan Eke examines the political, cultural, and religious debates surrounding Alevis and the Alevi movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301082Author Krisztina HunyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398441392Author Paul WinstanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766101565Author David PantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint LMH PublishersPublisher LMH PublishersWeight(grams) 370g

The US invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that would last nineteen years - and that fed an American fascination with Haiti that would flourish even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497317871Author Elton Elombe MottleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 2 Scholastic Set: 04 Title: Hush! Focus: qu sh ng Tricky words: go we to the he me she is into and I Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of phonically...

The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator's Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it...

On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of...

This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised element of Caribbean island culture. Combining analytical and creative genres of writing, it explores...