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Pirates and Privateers
Pocket Essentials 2009; US$ 14.99From Robert Louis Stevenson?s Treasure Island to Errol Flynn in Captain Blood on to today?s Pirates of the Caribbean, the romantic image of pirates in modern Western popular culture has long been with us. But of course pirates come in many guises, and not all of them as charming as Johnny Depp. Pirates are outlaws who move quickly, a form of lawlessness... more...
Cuban Anarchism
See Sharp Press 2001; US$ 8.00This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship. more...
Island Possessed
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 22.99Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting... more...
Cuban Counterpoint
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 25.00Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz?s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from many points of view. Their economic aspects form the base,... more...
Waiting For Snow In Havana
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableA childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from... more...
Waiting For Snow In Havana
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableA childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from... more...
Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790-1860 / Documents constitutionnels d'Haïti 1790-1860 / Verfassungsdokumente Haitis 1790-1860
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 277.00In the wake of the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century, the first modern constitutional documents adopted in the Americas outside of the US were penned in Haiti. This newly revised edition takes into account for the first time all constitutional documents from 1790 onward, thus offering a unique window on the early constitutional... more...
Waiting for Snow in Havana
Free Press 2003; US$ 16.00In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household -- and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution.... more...
Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean
Taylor and Francis 1986; US$ 69.95This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in July 1983 to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its focus is on the contemporary Caribbean and the omnipresent legacies of slavery... more...
Pichon
Chicago Review Press 2008; US$ 21.95Remarkable yet true, this engaging autobiography chronicles the development of one man?s racial and political consciousness and his search for purpose in life. Vivid descriptions of Moore?s poverty-stricken childhood?one steeped in social exclusion, racial self-hatred, and maternal abuse?illustrate the universal questions of identity and race he experienced... more...









