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  • The Black Jacobins

    Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    by C.L.R. James ...
    **A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review**The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Republic Of Pirates

    Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

    by Colin Woodard ...
    An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers.In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "Black Sam" Bellamy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Dictator Next Door

    The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945

    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo’s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Island People

    The Caribbean and the World

    A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination.From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Small Place

    A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beyond a Boundary

    50th Anniversary Edition

    Series series The C. L. R. James Archives
    This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated"Beyond a Boundary . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."—Derek Walcott, The New York Times ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

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    by Timothy Black ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean

    The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

    From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying siege to laying down the law. During Britain’s war with Spain ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Haitian Revolution

    Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War

    The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

    At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost entirely of rebel slaves, defeated all of its rivals and restored peace to the embattled territory ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    An “illuminating” survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century (Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe’s earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middle Passage

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    **From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing—a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.” —New Statesman**In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eating Puerto Rico

    A History of Food, Culture, and Identity

    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Point Is to Change the World

    Selected Writings of Andaiye

    by Andaiye ...
    Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters, and journal entries, Andaiye’s thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class, and power are powerfully articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Almost Home

    Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

    by Ruma Chopra ...
    The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all oddsAfter being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • In the American Grain

    The celebrated poet behind such classics as “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This Is Just to Say” presents a collection of essays about North American history.In the American Grain is, as William Carlos Williams said, “a study to try to find out for myself what the land of my more or less accidental birth might signify.” Although Williams wrote poetry and prose—and was a doctor—he was not a historian. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul PeckPlacing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Empire of Blue Water

    Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

    by Stephan Talty ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”—Entertainment Weekly“In Stephan Talty’s hands, the brilliant Captain Morgan, wicked and cutthroat though he was, proves an irresistible hero. . . . A thrilling and fascinating adventure.”—Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance and The BountyThe ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Pirate Hunters

    Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

    by Robert Kurson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow DiversFinding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

    How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge

    In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Golden Age of Piracy

    The Truth Behind Pirate Myths

    For thousands of years, pirates have terrorized the ocean voyager and the coastal inhabitant, plundered ship and shore, and wrought havoc on the lives and livelihoods of rich and poor alike. Around these desperate men has grown a body of myths and legends-fascinating tales that today strongly influence our notions of pirates and piracy. Most of these myths derive from the pirates of the Golden Age ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Big Truck That Went By

    How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

    On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Day the World Ended

    The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902

    The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned.In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus