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The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the...

The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK'A novel written nearly a hundred years ago that brings the past alive...

When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027331710Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768100306Author Phillips SherlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ian Randle Publishers,JamaicaPublisher Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica

History of Jamaica has been revised to bring the account of the island's history up to date. Many maps and photographs have also been added.This edition of the authoritative History of Jamaica covers the whole of the history of the island from the...

How Kahlo collected, celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her persona The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54) drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular-painted ceramics,...

Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation,...

When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by...

'Deeply moving' David Lammy'Honest, poetic and deeply researched excellence.' Paterson Joseph'A beautiful ode to migration, love and all that we do for family.' Florence Ọlájídé'It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself I had left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202413Author Carey RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 322g

In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailing from Europe or Africa to the Americas, or trading from India to Central America, was a risky undertaking. Ferocious storms and barely-understood diseases weren't the only threats; ruthless pirates lurked on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386335Author Martin J. SherwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between racial...

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...

For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award...

Explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized character in history--the pirate Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222474Author John CussansFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435650Author Carla GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607965688Author GuevaraFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.com

Highly acclaimed when it first appeared in 1990, this general history of Barbados traces the events and ideas that have shaped the collaborative experience of all the islands inhabitants. In this second edition, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect...

How slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of FranceHow slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of France's most productive New World colonyAbout...

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...

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937306045Author Eric WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Diasporic Africa PressPublisher Diasporic Africa PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the...

There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes, Krystal A. Sital grew up idolizing her grandfather, a wealthy Hindu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646631490Author Jeremy R MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Captain''s Row BooksPublisher Captain''s Row BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Ligon'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...

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution,...

From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found...

'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and...

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few...

Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of...

Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617590085Author Eric WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint EworldPublisher EworldWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070739Author Sanjay Badri-MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

"This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else" The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney have always loved and hated one another in the way that only sisters can. From...