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The Children of Africa in the Colonies
LSU Press 2008; US$ 29.95When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa... more...
The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500?2000
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 23.99Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore... more...
Under the Black Flag
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 16.00For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that... more...
New Man in Cuba
UPF 2003; US$ 44.95This is the first monograph to make available to English readers the Spanish literary and political texts that laid the basis for revolutionary culture and identity but were almost ignored because of the Cuban Revolution's controversial history. more...
Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment
Princeton University Press 1995; US$ 49.00Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from... more...
The Caribbean Slave
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 46.00A comprehensive analysis of the biological experience of black slaves in the Caribbean. more...
Cuban Sugar Industry
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. This book tells the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cuba's development and whose experience helps illuminate both the advance of the Cuban sugar industry and the processes by which the island was... more...
U.S.-Cuban Cooperation Past, Present, and Future
UPF 2007; US$ 34.95Shows that the strategic logic of U.S.-Cuba security cooperation remains so persuasive that it has even been intermittently embraced by such avowed antagonists as Fidel Castro and George W. Bush. more...
Guantánamo
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 34.99An on-the-ground history of American empire Say the word ?Guantánamo? and orange jumpsuits, chain-link fences, torture, and indefinite detention come to mind. To critics the world over, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a striking symbol of American hypocrisy. But the prison isn?t the whole story. For more than two centuries, Guantánamo has been at... more...
Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba
UPF 2011; US$ 74.95Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery, and of the successes it achieved--along with the... more...









