Filter By
Books (30)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Caribbean Transformations by Sidney Mintz 9780231071154
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.12Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to... -
Caribbean Transformations by Sidney Mintz 9780231071147
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $190.22Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to... -
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets by Sidney Mintz
RRP: $99.45Booksplease Price: $81.51A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were... -
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom by Sidney Mintz 9780807046296
Booksplease Price: $37.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046296Author Sidney MintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity by James Walvin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign... -
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9780691220550
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.33What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern... -
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations by Sidney W. Mintz
RRP: $50.60Booksplease Price: $43.88As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the... -
Critical Anthropology: Foundational Works by Stephen L. Nugent
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic,... -
The Story of Soy by Christine M. Du Bois 9781780239255
Booksplease Price: $54.41The humble soybean is the world's most grown and most traded oilseed. But it is also a poorly understood crop that is often viewed in extreme terms as a superfood or poison. Christine M. Du Bois... -
The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink by Carolyn Korsmeyer
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $68.23Taste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an important role in identity, memory, emotion, desire, and aversion, as well as social, religious and other... -
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780140092332
Booksplease Price: $24.16A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed... -
Jews and Their Foodways by Anat Helman 9780190265427
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $103.78Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together... -
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology Stephen Nugent 9781138894037
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He... -
Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence by Helen C. Scott
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $80.71Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization offers a fresh reading of contemporary literature by Caribbean women in the context of global and local economic forces, providing a valuable corrective to... -
Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar by Carl Plasa 9781846317491
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.24Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. These links have long been a... -
Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism by Shir Lerman Ginzburg 9781666922073
Booksplease Price: $147.83Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism traces the ways in which diabetes, depression, and food insecurity interact under the rule of... -
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with... -
No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton 9780822334019
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $174.33Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of... -
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan 9780822333760
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with... -
![No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton 9780822334019 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9621987/10652671/9780822334019__63007.1780293288.jpg?c=1 "No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton 9780822334019 [USED COPY]")
No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton 9780822334019 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $30.15Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of... -
Teaching Food and Culture Candice Lowe Swift 9781629581279
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08With the rapid growth and interest in food studies around the U.S. and globally, the original essays in this one-of-a-kind volume aid instructors in expanding their teaching to include both the... -
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman 9780822324393
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados... -
![High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman 9780822324034 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031493/5030709/9780822324034__01021.1722858671.jpg?c=1 "High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman 9780822324034 [USED COPY]")
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman 9780822324034 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $16.77High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados... -
The Marketing Era: From Professional Practice to Global Provisioning by Kalman Applbaum
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $61.46Marketing has situated itself as an indispensable tool in today's business world-an unavoidable step in the process from production to consumption. This book is the first of its kind to map out the... -
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance by Leonard Barkan
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.47An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and cultureEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the... -
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $35.22In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly... -
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
RRP: $50.60Booksplease Price: $43.88The 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... -
Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas by Steve Striffler
Booksplease Price: $75.47Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of... -
Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption since 1950 Fernando Collantes 9781350401549
Booksplease Price: $167.02In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have been mostly left behind, but they have given way to... -
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee,...