SEAN CARRINGTON, ADDINTON FORDE, JOHN GILMORE' 'HENRY FRASER

Peter L. Drewett Charts the changes on natural and cultural landscapes from prehistoric times to 1850

Peter L. Drewett

George H.H. McLellan

Edward Goulburn Sinckler

Joanne McRee Sanders Book by Sanders, Joanne McRee

Joanne McRee Sanders

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Joanne McRee Sanders

Trevor A. Carmichael

Thor Janson Belize: Land of the Free by the Carib Sea is a book displaying Belizean culture through pictures. Includes detailed photographs of Belize City, district village life, the Cayes, native wildlife, and much more!

C. L. R. James Published at the start of the cricket season, this cricket book, written in 1963, includes pieces and anecdotes about many of the greatest British and West Indian cricketers including W.G. Grace, George Headley and Learie Constantine.

Woodville Marshall, Pedro Welch

Woodville & Pedro Welch Marshall

Caribbean Conservation Association, Calvin Howell To help promote awareness and interest in the local birds of the Caribbean islands, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service welcomed the opportunity to cooperate in the production of this guide to assist teachers in incorporating bird conservation issues into their lesson plans.

C.L.R. James A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.

This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

Paul E Martin

Frantz Fanon

William A. Green A study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century, this book draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the eve of emancipation in 1830-1865, a key passage in West Indian history. Green presents a clear general picture of the sugar colonies, and places British governmental policy toward the region in the context of Victorian attitudes toward colonial questions.

Monya Anyadike-Danes

Hilary Beckles

Ann Watson Yates Book by Yates, Ann Watson

C. L. R. James, null l Author of such classic works as Minty Alley, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, C. L. R. James was one of the most significant writers of our times.

In a life which reflected many of the distinctive features of the twentieth century (from his birth in Trinidad in 1901, to his death in Brixton, London, 1989), James made an outstanding contribution to debates on politics, history, art, literature and sport. His revolutionary vision has inspired social movements in the United States, Britain, Africa and the Caribbean. It remains central to any understanding of the modern world.

Until now much of his work has remained inaccessible; but Anna Grimshaw brings together here both published and unpublished material to give us the essential C. L. R. James. Prepared in collaboration with James in his final year, this collection offers unique insight into the range and development of his life's work.

It includes a selection of early fiction, the complete text of the play The Black Jacobins, numerous extracts from his personal archive and the classic essays, The Case for West-Indian Self-Government, Popular Art and the Cultural Tradition and Black Power.

Noël Deerr This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sally Price In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.

Yanique Hume (Editor), Aaron Kamugisha (Editor), Aisha Khan (Afterword) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond. Contributors: Anténor Firmin, José Martí, Jean Price-Mars, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Léon Damas, Martin Carter, Marcus Garvey, Percy Hintzen, Roberto Fernández Retamar, M. Jacqui Alexander, Nicholás Guillén, George Beckford, George Lamming, Richard Price, Lucille Mathurin-Mair, Sidney Mintz, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Fernando Ortiz, Jean Price-Mars, Elsa Goveia, Kamau Brathwaite, Richard Price, Patricia Mohammed, Peter Wilson, David Scott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Lloyd Best, Rex Nettleford, Edouard Glissant, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, C.L.R. James, Wilson Harris, Gordon Rohlehr, Sylvia Wynter, Gloria Wekker, Audre Lorde, Kamala Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Barry Chevannes, Aisha Khan, Dianne M. Stewart, Stuart Hall, Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo, Erna Brodber, Shani Mootoo, Louise Bennett, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Derek Walcott

Compliation, Jane Bryce Caribbean Dispatches takes a highly original approach to one of the world s most diverse cultures, covering a wide cross-section from Guyana to Trinidad & Tobago in the south to the Bahamas in the north.

It offers an entertaining and idiosyncratic collection of
personal perspectives on the Caribbean, by 28 writers
of different backgrounds, for readers who want to get
beneath the exotic surface of the tourist experience.

It s not a guide book, but for the curious it s full of inside
information, with the emphasis on variety, the unexpected
and the intimate. It is the ideal companion for anyone
fascinated by the Caribbean who wants to find out more,
while for those who know the area already, it illuminates
hidden corners and takes you further than you ve ever gone
before... so gripping is it that you ll have read it on the plane
before you even get there!

Contributors include:
· Shake Keane
· Oonya Kempadoo
· Ian McDonald
· Mark McWatt
· Opal Palmer-Adisa
· Polly Pattullo
· Olive Senior
· Marina Warner
· Anthony C. Winkler

Karen Fog Olwig Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the people whose lives she traces, being “Caribbean” is not necessarily rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast geographical expanses.

The migratory journeys of the families in this study began more than sixty years ago, when individuals in the three families left home in a British colonial town in Jamaica, a French Creole rural community in Dominica, and an African-Caribbean village of small farmers on Nevis. Olwig follows the three family networks forward in time, interviewing family members living under highly varied social and economic circumstances in locations ranging from California to Barbados, Nova Scotia to Florida, and New Jersey to England. Through her conversations with several generations of these far-flung families, she gives insight into each family’s educational, occupational, and socioeconomic trajectories. Olwig contends that terms such as “Caribbean diaspora” wrongly assume a culturally homogeneous homeland. As she demonstrates in Caribbean Journeys, anthropologists who want a nuanced understanding of how migrants and their descendants perceive their origins and identities must focus on interpersonal relations and intimate spheres as well as on collectivities and public expressions of belonging.

Edited by Richard Goodridge

Aaron Kamugisha Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms uncovers, collects and reflects on the wealth of political thought produced in the Caribbean region. It traces the political thought of the Caribbean from the debate between Bartolomé de las Casas and Ginés de Sepulveda on the categorization of Native people in the New World, through the Haitian Revolution, to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. The ideas of revolutionaries and intellectuals are counterposed with manifestos, constitutional excerpts and speeches to give a view of the range of political options, questions, and immense choices that have faced the region s people over the last 500 years. Contributors: Trevor Munroe, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Dantès Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, Richard B. Moore, Fidel Castro, Walter Rodney, Maurice Bishop, Sylvia Wynter, Gordon Lewis, Anthony Bogues, Hilary Beckles, Bechu, Roy Augier, David Scott, Anténor Firmin, José Martí, J.J. Thomas, Hubert Harrison, Marcus Garvey, Rhoda Reddock, Pedro Albizu Campos, George Padmore, Suzanne Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Claudia Jones, Cheddi Jagan, Lloyd Best, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Ernesto Che Guevara, Claudia Jones, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry

Aaron Kamugisha (Editor), Henry Paget (Afterword) Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State reckons with the vast body of radical work and thought on the post-colonial Caribbean state. It focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean countries gained their independence, and the character of the region s post-colonial politics had become clear. The survey of political thought in this collection is divided into four sections: theories of the post-colonial state, theorizing post-colonial citizenship, Caribbean regionalism and political culture. Contributors: Walter Rodney, Percy Hintzen, Ernesto Sagás, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Carl Stone, Brian Meeks, C.Y. Thomas, George Danns, Norman Girvan, George Belle, Eudine Barriteau, Hilbourne Watson, C.L.R. James, M. Jacqui Alexander, Tracy Robinson, Obika Gray, Patricia Mohammed, Charles Mills, Frantz Fanon, Arthur Lewis, Patsy Lewis, Havelock R.H. Ross-Brewster, Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, A.W. Singham, N.L. Singham, Eric Williams, Rupert Lewis, Jacky Dahomay, George Lamming, Erna Brodber, Sylvia Wynter, Paget Henry

Yanique Hume, Aaron Kamugisha Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance examines the Caribbean popular - an idea that has been an important and contested terrain for exploring the dynamic and oftentimes subversive cultural expressions of the region. The Caribbean popular arts, whether embodied in the hybrid musical genres or vernacular performance and festival traditions, have historically provided a space for social and political critique, the performance of visibility and also articulations of a temporal emancipatory ethos with its attendant acquisition of power and status. Beyond the spaces of their local/regional enactments and the social realities out of which they emerged and continue to circulate, Caribbean popular culture has over time contributed to contemporary understandings of global and diasporic cultures and, at the same time, the dynamics of inter-cultural encounters. The terrain of the popular has been a generative site for the study of Caribbean societies, and has produced enduring theoretical postulations that have been pivotal to the shaping of the intellectual production on the Caribbean. It is also the most powerful force that socializes contemporary Caribbean citizens into an understanding of their identities, the limits of their citizenship, and the meaning of their worlds.

Edited by Anthony Bogues George Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming s writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and literary life. Credited as a part of that group of Caribbean activists who awoke the Caribbean to its identity and more specifically to its cultural identity, his works have focused on finding new political and social identity. Indeed, Lamming was a seminal figure in the Caribbean 20th century intellectual tradition and radical anti-colonial tradition. Lamming is best known for his novels. In the Castle of My Skin and The Emigrants take place in England and are largely autobiographical. Of Age and Innocence and Season of Adventure are set on the fictional Caribbean island of San Cristobal. In Water with Berries, the plot of Shakespeare s The Tempest is used to unmask the imperfections of West Indian society while his final novel, Natives of My Person, gives account of the voyage of a slave-trading ship on the triangular trade route from Europe to Africa to the New World colonies. In The Aesthetics of Decolonisation, friend and colleague Anthony Bogues pulls together Lamming s critical works, some previously published, some given as addresses, lectures and interviews. This is accompanied by critical reflections on Lamming s work by noted scholars such as Andaiye and Sandra Pouchet Paquet as well as a foreword by Ng g wa Thiong o. This much needed reader on Lamming and his work examines the history of the Caribbean and the categories which continue to shape and influence Caribbean identity in our contemporary world.

Belinda Edmondson This interdisciplinary volume on postcolonial Caribbean culture brings together ten essays by exciting young scholars who challenge some of the established assumptions of postcolonial studies. The contributors look at ways in which the "romance" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent, postcolonial societies of the region.

The essays situate this discourse of idealization in its historical and cultural contexts and reveal how it is a reinvention of the old romance initially constructed in the imperial imagination of Europe and America.

Kathleen J. Renk

Roger C. Clay

Peter Hulme Europe encountered America in 1492, a meeting of cultures graphically described in the log-book kept by Christopher Columbus. His stories of peaceful savages and cruel "cannibals" have formed the matrix for all subsequent descriptions of that native Caribbean society. The encounter itself has obsesssed colonialist writing. It reappears in the early 17th century in the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, and on the Jacobean stage in the figures of Prospero and Caliban. In the 18th century, over two hundred years after the European discovery of the Caribbean, the idea of a pristine encounter still permeated European literature through Robinson Crusoe's emblematic rescue of the Carib he called Friday. The last version - the enormously popular tale of Inkle and Yarico - was contemporary with the final military defeat of the remaining native Caribbeans in the 1790s. Peter Hulme's detailed analyses of these stories bring to light the techniques used to produce within colonial discourse a "savagery", that could be denied the right to possess in law the land that it cultivated. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the fields of Renaissance, 18th-century literature and post-colonial criticism.

George Lamming

Edward Brathwaite

Eugenie Wiliams, Annette Edwards

Edger Mittelholzer

Pierrette M. Frickey

Olive Senior The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation" in 1950's England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850's who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the islands economically, socially and politically well into the twentieth century. West Indians provided the bulk of the workforce for the construction of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal, and between 1850 and 1914 untold numbers sacrificed their lives, limbs and mental faculties to the Panama projects. Many West Indians remained as settlers, their descendants now citizens of Panama; many returned home with enough of a nest egg to better themselves; and others launched themselves elsewhere in the Americas as work beckoned. Senior tells the compelling story of the West Indian rite of passage of "Going to Panama" and captures the complexities behind the iconic "Colon Man". Drawing on official records, contemporary newspapers, journals and books, songs, sayings, and literature, and the words of the participants themselves, Senior answers the questions as to who went to Panama, how and why; she describes the work they did there, the conditions under which they lived, the impact on their homelands when they returned or on the host societies when they stayed. Many books have shown the "conquest" of the Isthmus of Panama by land and sea exploring how the myriad individual lives touched by the construction of the railroad and the canal changed the world as well.

Ian Gregory Strachan

Edwidge Danticat

Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, Barbara Bailey

J. Edward Hutson

Sidney M. Greenfield

Krista A. Thompson Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures.

Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures.

Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Edouard Glissant This notebook is Hans Ulrich Obrist's homage to the French author, poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). Glissant, one of the most influential figures of the French-speaking Caribbean and a pioneer of postcolonial thinking, called attention to "means of global exchange which do not homogenize culture but produce a difference from which new things can emerge." Obrist encountered Glissant at the beginning of his career, through the recommendation of Alighiero Boetti. In his introduction, Obrist creates a multilayered portrait of the intellectual, laying out some of his key concepts: the creolization of the world, "archipelic thought," and the museum as archipelago, as well as utopia. These ideas are explored by Glissant in a selection of title pages of his books with drawings, notations and poetic dedications that are reproduced here in facsimile.

Peter Drewett Peter Drewett's comprehensive survey explores every stage of the dig process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product: the published archaeological report.

Main topics covered are: how an archaeological site is formedfinding and recording archaeological sitesplanning excavations, digging the site and recording the resultspost-fieldwork planning, processing and finds analysisinterpreting the evidencepublishing the report.

Illustrated with 100 photographs and line drawings, and using numerous case studies, Field Archaeology is the essential introductory guide for archaeology students, and is certain to be welcomed by the growing number of enthusiasts for the subject.

Eric Williams From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.

C.C. Skeete

Garry Sobers Garry Sobers is a cricketing legend; his feats with the bat, ball, and in the field are remarkable. In this revealing and honest autobiography, Sobers talks about his upbringing and the tragic accident that inspired him throughout his career. He explains how he helped the West Indies to become the most feared cricketing nation in the world, setting them on a course of success that would run for another 20 years. With authority that comes form his unique status in the game, he assesses modern cricket, with its allegations of corruption, and gives his verdict on how the sport can progress in the 21st century.

Franklin W. Knight

Hilary Beckles This book sets out for the general reader and student alike the peculiar features of the post emancipation condition of the formerly enslaved community in Barbados. It was here on this small island of 166 square miles that tens of thousands of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean first experienced the full brutality of the sugar plantation. It was here also, in this incubator of chattel slavery, that Africans received the worst possible emancipation deal the Caribbean, if not the Americas. Barbados, the first black majority slave plantation society in the New World, remained structurally unaltered by the powerful source for change that was unleashed on August 1st 1838 – emancipation day. Here, an unrelenting landless freedom was imposed upon the blacks whose conditions of work and life remained largely unchanged for a century on plantations that produced more sugar with less labour for below subsistence wages.

The formerly enslaved community, persisted with its protest and rebellion; Wage protest in the sugar fields intermingled with the civil rights agitation on the assembly floor, finally led to open warfare in the form of the 1876 Rebellion.

Against this background of 19th century popular protests and workers’ agitation, the modern labour movement, the anticolonial campaign, and agitation for democratic governance came to maturity by the 1920s. The final breach in the walls of the structures of white supremacy was achieved in 1937 when the workers took to the streets and field with arms under the ideological leadership of the charismatic Garveyite organizers, Clement Payne. It had taken a full century of struggle after emancipation to see, even at a distance, the freedom that was promised by the abolition of slavery legislation.

Siddhartha L. Orie

Carla Freeman High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities—in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called “informatics.” It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies.
Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line into the realm of computer-based work, and focuses specifically on the incorporation of young Barbadian women into these high-tech informatics jobs. As such, Caribbean women are seen as integral not simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its very form. Through the enactment of “professionalism” in both appearances and labor practices, and by insisting that motherhood and work go hand in hand, they re-define the companies’ profile of “ideal” workers and create their own “pink-collar” identities. Through new modes of dress and imagemaking, the informatics workers seek to distinguish themselves from factory workers, and to achieve these new modes of consumption, they engage in a wide array of extra income earning activities. Freeman argues that for the new Barbadian pink-collar workers, the globalization of production cannot be viewed apart from the globalization of consumption. In doing so, she shows the connections between formal and informal economies, and challenges long-standing oppositions between first world consumers and third world producers, as well as white-collar and blue-collar labor.
Written in a style that allows the voices of the pink-collar workers to demonstrate the simultaneous burdens and pleasures of their work, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy will appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women’s studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labor and postcolonial studies.

Hilary McD. Beckles As Barbados celebrates 350 years of established parliamentary government, this concise and authoritative history makes a timely appearance, covering the period from the first human settlement by the Amerindians to the present day. Social, political, and economic themes run throughout the book, including detailed aspects of early English colonization, the emergence and eventual abolition of the slave trade, and the development and growth of the sugar industry. Professor Beckles emphasizes the struggles for social equality, civil rights, and material betterment, detailing their continuous flow through the island's history since 1627.

Patricia Mohammed Imagine turning the leaves of a book in which five hundred years of Caribbean history unfolds in colour. Read about and see the people who made this history, those who came, saw and conquered, those who were found in the region, those who were brought in as settlers for their labour. Not only do we discover the range of peoples but also their crafting of religion, art and artefacts to create a new aesthetic that is popularly perceived as Caribbean.In "Imaging the Caribbean", Patricia Mohammed takes you through a visual journey of the making of a new world culture. Using over three hundred images of maps, drawings, sketches, paintings and photographs from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and other Caribbean territories, alongside anthropological, literary and historical texts, she reconstructs the process by which another variegated culture is created out of the broken shards of parent cultures, combining elements of Europe, Africa and Asia, privileging no one group and seeing all as mutual exchanges that are necessary to the constant rebirth of the region and its diaspora.

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Lisa Outar Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations.  Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice.

Donna P. Hope International Reggae is an edited volume emanating from the International Reggae Conference hosted annually by the Institute of Caribbean Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Like the conference, this work seeks to consolidate and disseminate knowledge on Jamaican music and associated music forms.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro 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 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place,  they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor.  But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.

Barbados Museum, Historical Society

Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, Cécile Accilien Just Below South is the first book to examine the U.S. South and the Caribbean as a "regional interculture" shaped by performance—as a space defined not so much by a shared set of geographical boundaries or by a single, common culture as by the weave of performances and identities moving across and throughout it. By offering fresh ways for thinking about region, language, and performance, the volume helps to reimagine the possibilities for American Studies. It advances beyond current analyses of historical or literary commonalities between the South and the Caribbean to explore startling and significant connections between a range of performances, including Trinidadian carnival, Civil War reenactments, the Martinican dance form kalenda, dramatic adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rituals of spirit possession, the teaching of Haitian Kreyòl, the translation of Louisiana Creole, and the imaginative "travels" of southern and Caribbean writers.

While generating textual conversations among scholars of Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone literature and culture and forging innovative ties between cultural studies, performance studies, linguistics, literary analysis, and studies of the African diaspora, these essays raise provocative new questions about race, ethnicity, gender, class, and nationality.

ContributorsJessica Adams, University of California, Berkeley * Carolyn Vellenga Berman, The New School * Anne Malena, University of Alberta * Cécile Accilien, Columbus State University, Georgia * Don E. Walicek, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras * Julian Gerstin, San Jose State University * Rawle Gibbons, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine * Kathleen M. Gough, University of Glasgow * Shirley Toland-Dix, University of South Florida, Tampa * Michael P. Bibler, University of Mary Washington * Jana Evans Braziel, University of Cincinnati

Olaudah Equiano Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, six months among the Miskito Indians in Central America, and more.

Gordon K. Lewis Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought.

Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.

James Ferguson Makers of the Caribbean introduces young readers to the lives, ideas, exploits and achievements of a selection of personalities who in their individual styles have helped to 'make' the Caribbean we know today. Organized around ten selected themes, the book recognizes the contributions of Freedom Fighters, Politicians, Visionaries and Intellectuals, Writers and Performers, Artists, Musicians and Sports people from the English, French and Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean. The book is written in a clear and accessible style and the text is enhanced by the inclusion of portraits and other photographs that will help put faces to what were previously, only names for many readers. A selected bibliography is also included to guide readers who will undoubtedly wish to learn more about their respective heroes. This introductory biography is intended not only to inform and educate, but to inspire the young people of the region with positive role models seen through the lives, achievements, brilliance, and resilience of these 'Makers of the Caribbean'.

F. R. Augier This book is intended to meet the requirements of three G.C.E 'O' level syllabuses in West Indian history.

Lennox Honychurch Dominica is not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, it lies between Guadaloupe and Martinique in the Windward Isles of the Eastern Caribbean. With a past rich in Amerindian, African, French and British influences, many of the island's people speak Creole and most farm the highly fertile land. This guide describes the country's history, national parks, tours and treks, towns, villages, forts and ports. It provides information on diving, handicrafts, local cuisine, folklore and festivals and a section on where to stay and where to eat.

George Lamming

Jerome S. Handler, Frederick W. Lange Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and other dimensions of social and material life. Handler and Lange have also examined and extensively integrated the written records to amplify and cross-check their findings.

Based on the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography, Plantation Slavery in Barbados explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.

Fidel Castro, Jose Ramon Fernandez

Isaac Dookham

Hilary MCD Beckles, Heather D Russell Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belongings. Still, there have been varied responses to RihannaAEs ascendancy, both in the Barbadian public and Caribbean community at large u responses that reveal as much about our own national/regional anxieties as they do about the artist herself. The cutting edge, boundary-transgressing, cultural icon Rihanna is certainly subject to moralistic scrutiny from her global audiences as well; however, the essays in this collection purposely seek to de-centre the dominance of the Euro-American gaze, focusing instead on considerations of the Caribbean artist and her oeuvre from a Caribbean postcolonial corpus of academic inquiry. To this end, Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings together U.S. and Caribbean based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture, and economy. Using the concept of diasporic citizenship as a central theoretical frame, this book intervenes in current questions of national and transnational circuits of exchange as they pertain to the commoditization and movement of culture, knowledge, values, and identity. The contributors- drawing from literature, history, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and queer studies, the creative/cultural industries and political science - approach the subjects of Rihanna, globalization, gender and sexuality, commerce, transnationalism, Caribbean regionalism, and Barbadian national identity and development, from different disciplinary and at times radically divergent perspectives. At the same time, the essays collectively work through the limitations, possibilities and promise of our best Caribbean imaginings.

Alberto Hiar Junior Ilustrações, pinturas, colagens e fotografias. Com a proposta de mostrar o trabalho de jovens criadores, todos na faixa entre 25 e pouco mais de 30 anos, "São Paulo em Vinte Artistas" reúne obras desses novos talentos que fazem sua leitura particular da cidade. Convidados pelo organizador da obra, Alberto Hiar Junior, e pelo grupo Coletivo Base-V, formado por Anderson Rego de Freitas, David Magila e Danilo Tadeu Oliveira, não houve nenhum tipo de briefing; os artistas e grupos reunidos tiveram como única recomendação retratar São Paulo à sua maneira. O organizador Alberto Hiar Junior explica que a proposta foi dar chance aos novos artistas sem oportunidade de apresentar seu trabalho. A publicação desse livro é uma grande oportunidade para divulgar essa fantástica produção.

Davidoff Art Initiative

Various, Linda M. Deane, Robert Edison Sandiford Edited by award-winning, Barbadian-based writers Linda M. Deane and Robert Edison Sandiford, this anthology is a showcase of some of the finest contemporary writing on cricket—and is a tribute to the spirit of the game as played in the Caribbean.

The collection represents a literary landmark in Barbados. In a country where cricket is talked about at length and with great passion, Deane and Sandiford have assembled a first-class team of scholars, sportswriters, storytellers, diehard fanatics, and other keen observers who, between them, offer 22 evocative commentaries, or "shouts," on the game and its significance to Caribbean life.

In addition to insightful essays on cricket as a socio-political phenomenon, and analyses of the game's history and current state of play, cricket's multi-faceted appeal is also engagingly witnessed through memoir and personal narrative, poetry, humour, and fiction. The contributions of icons like Sir Gary Sobers and Brian Lara are, meanwhile, given forensic treatment. And although the anthology features a distinctly Bajan batting lineup, the "selectors" were pleased to be able to include writers from further afield—Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, and India.

Pedro L. V. Welch

Christine Barrow and J.E. Greene

University of West Indies Jamaica

George Lamming Political philosophy, Literature, Caribbean history, Language studies. According to Prof. Anthony Bogues: The Sovereignty of the Imagination gives us that capacity for language and therefore the ability to name and establish categories. But this is not just a literary capacity; it allows us to define freedom. George Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for freedom for the social group that he calls 'this world of men and women from down below.'

Remco de Blaaij

Geraldine Lane

Guy Grannum Research into West Indian ancestry is a relatively new and much neglected area of study in the U.K. This revised illustrated guide introduces researchers to the main sources available at The National Archives and elsewhere, including electoral and tax returns, land grants, colonial civil servants, the West Indies regiments and the Slave Compensation Commission. This is the only title currently available which brings together the wide range of sources available to researchers of West Indian ancestry. It includes details of recent accessions to The National Archives, in particular relating to the First World War military service records, the British West Indies Regiment and records of service for the merchant navy. It has been updated to include all the administrative changes at The National Archives since publication of the first edition and information about the NA's online services. Contents include: · An introduction to West Indian Family History · Records of the Colonial Office · Life-cycle records · Military and related records · Genealogical resources held in the West Indian archives and registry offices

Philip M. Sherlock, Rex M. Nettleford This is the story of the founding and development over four decades of the University of the West Indies; of its purposes and programmes with emphasis on its role as an agent of social development and economic growth in widely dispersed and diverse communities most of which have gained political independence since the early 1960s.

Hunter Davies Hunter Davies has visited 27 Caribbean islands and produced a book which is part travel book, as he describes his wanderings around 10 of these islands, and also a highly personal but very informative guide to all the islands. His 10 islands include Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Antigua, and Cuba—some English speaking, some French and Spanish. Along the way, he tracks down ex-pats who have gone to live and work in the Caribbean, hoping for true happiness—or at least a tan. He also talks to returnees—West Indians who after several decades in the UK have returned to their roots and experience different types of cultural shock.

David H Weeks

Howard Johnson, Karl S. Watson

Howard Johnson, Karl S. Watson

Sean Carrington First published over ten years ago, this fully revised and updated edition now includes several plant species previously unrecorded for Barbados. This book aims to enable the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as 'just bush'. Over 500 entries are included, all with colour photographs, and clear, precise, and easy-to-follow descriptions to allow for accurate identification.

Sean Carrington, Richard A. Howard This practical guide and reference book aims to enable the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as just weeds. There are 700 such plants in Barbados, 520 of these are described - 192 with colour photographs. Plant descriptions of monocotyledons and of dicotyledons, have critical distinguishing features and diagnostic characteristics for identification. Abundance and distribution in Barbados is given together with interesting facts/folklore relating to uses. The "quick and dirty" method is described - used in the field to identify the plant that is found. Sean Carrington provides the full-colour photographs.

Helen Pyne-Timothy A collection of essays about the woman writer in Caribbean literature.

Barbados Museum and Historical Society