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Caribbean & West Indies

  • Chinese Cubansby Kathleen M. Lopez

    The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant... more...

  • Haiti and the Americasby Carla Calarge; Raphael Dalleo; Luis Duno-Gottberg; Clevis Headley

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 150.00

    Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second... more...

  • Free and French in the Caribbeanby John Patrick Walsh

    Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 22.99

    In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French... more...

  • History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896by Lionel Mordant Fraser

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00

    This work covers the period of rapid expansion after the British conquest in 1797 until the colony was faced with dislocations coinciding with the emancipation of the slaves. more...

  • The Cuban Missile Crisisby Alice George

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 26.95

    ? For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during... more...

  • The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drummingby Kenneth Schweitzer

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 150.00

    An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities, batá drummers facilitate the communal praising... more...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeologyby William F. Keegan; Corinne L. Hofman; Reniel Rodriguez Ramos

    Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 149.99

    The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. Though these islands were never isolated from the surrounding mainland, their histories are sufficiently diverse... more...

  • Under the Black Flagby David Cordingly

    Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 16.00

    For 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...

  • Sugar in the Bloodby Andrea Stuart

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 27.95

    In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart?s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly... more...

  • The United States and the Caribbean: Transforming Hegemony and Sovereigntyby Anthony P. Maingot; Wilfredo Lozano

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of post-Cold War US-Caribbean relations. Focusing on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad-Tobago, the book looks at the political history of the region during the Cold War years, the region's current political economy, international security, and issues of migration and crime. Spanning... more...