Category Archives: Caribbean & West Indies

The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days

Named one of the Washington Post Book World’s Best Books of 2009, The Least Worst Place offers a gripping narrative account of the first one hundred days of Guantanamo. Greenberg, one of America’s leading experts on the Bush Administration’s policies … Continue reading

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New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa

When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of “indentured” labor was … Continue reading

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Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain

A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919?1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s … Continue reading

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The Bay of Pigs: Cuba 1961 (Elite)

In early 1961 President John F. Kennedy gave the go-ahead to an existing plan for Cuban exiles to return to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist regime. While the CIA helped in the planning stages, the attempt would not be assisted by … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of the Caribbean (Cambridge World Archaeology)

The Archaeology of the Caribbean is a comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands, from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Samuel Wilson … Continue reading

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Bob Marley: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Bob Marley was the first, and possibly the only, superstar to emerge from the Third World. Although he lived a short life, only 36 years, Bob penned an enormous quantity of songs, pioneering a new reggae rhythm and sound that … Continue reading

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Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival

Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a major transnational festival. In Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green, Philip … Continue reading

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The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America’s Ille

– The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantanamo — ‘An important book. If you care about our Government’s complicity in these illegal and horrific acts then this book provides the evidence.’ Ken Loach”Extraordinary rendition, … Continue reading

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Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora (Envisioning Cuba,)

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country’s borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929@-2005), who … Continue reading

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Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Music of the African Diaspora)

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of … Continue reading

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