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Caribbean & West Indies eBooks
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Cold War in a Hot Zone
By: Horne, Gerald
Published by: Temple University Press
A fresh view of U.S involvement in the British West Indies during the Cold War
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Price: $74.50
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Columbus in the Americas
By: Least Heat-Moon, William
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Based on the logbook of Columbus and numerous other firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World, this vividly detailed history also examines the strengths and weaknesses of Columbus as a navigator, explorer, and leader. It recounts dramatic events such as the destruction of Fortress Navidad, the very first European settlement in the New World; a pitched battle in northern Panama with the native Guaymi people; and an agonizing year Columbus and his men spent marooned on a narrow spit of land in southern Jamaica.
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Price: $19.95
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Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom
By: Armstrong, Douglas V.
Published by: University Press of Florida
“With the first study to address the development of a free, mixed-race Caribbean community using historical and archaeological evidence, Armstrong has provided a new direction for research and challenged accepted notions of Caribbean family structure.
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Price: $59.95
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The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean
By: Lewis, Linden
Published by: University Press of Florida
“A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean.”--A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland This volume provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean.
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Price: $59.95
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Dark Side of the Light
By: Sala-Molins, Louis; Conteh-Morgan, John
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Translated into English for the first time, Dark Side of the Light scrutinizes Condorcet's Reflections on Negro Slavery and the works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot side by side with the Code Noir (the royal document that codified the rules of French Caribbean slavery). In doing so, renowned French intellectual Louis Sala-Molins uncovers attempts to uphold the humanist project of the Enlightenment while simultaneously justifying slavery.
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Price: $58.50
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Empire of Blue Water
By: Talty, Stephan
Published by: Crown Publishing Group
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune.
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Price: $14.95
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Nicaragua -- The Imagining of a Nation
By: Baracco, Luciano
Published by: Algora Publishing
Nicaragua: The Imagining of a Nation is geared to students and academics of nationalism studies, history, and Latin American studies. Analyzing Nicaragua’s postcolonial history, the author studies the Sandinista Revolution in the context of Nicaragua’s on
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Price: $29.95
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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica
By: Mouser, Bruce L. (ed.); Gamble, Samuel
Published by: Indiana University Press
Captain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive and provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century.
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Price: $11.95
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Archaeology of the Caribbean
By: Wilson, Samuel M.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from 4000 BC to AD 1700.
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Price: $23.00
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Coolie Speaks
By: Yun, Lisa
Published by: Temple University Press
A remarkable examination of bondage in Cuba that probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race.
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Price: $37.50
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