The Best Caribbean & West Indies History Books 2025

1. Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

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Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

2. Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In Jaime Suchlicki's engaging style, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In addition to its concise narrative history, CUBA details the current political climate, economy, and the regime's future. Suchlicki discusses the domestic and international events that have affected this island nation in recent years. This highly readable history is perfect for students, travelers, and anyone else who seeks to understand more about Cuba and its people.

Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Used [Paperback]

3. Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey, Used [Paperback]

This well-established text combines a thematic and regional look at Latin America and the Caribbean. The thematic approach surveys the physical environment, historical geography, demography, agriculture, communications, industry, urban and political aspects of Latin America. The regional approach covers chapters on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Andean America, Brazil, Brazilian Amazonia, and the Southern Cone.? This updated edition includes updated maps and photos, and new Interlude on Cancun and the Yucatan, and an new Interlude on "Self Help Housing".

Latin America and the Caribbean : A Systematic and Regional Survey, Used [Paperback]

4. The losers;: The definitive report, by an eyewitness, of the Communist conquest of Cuba and the Soviet penetration in Latin America [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The losers;: The definitive report, by an eyewitness, of the Communist conquest of Cuba and the Soviet penetration in Latin America (Spanish Edition)

The losers;: The definitive report, by an eyewitness, of the Communist conquest of Cuba and the Soviet penetration in Latin America, Used [Hardcover]

5. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, Used [Hardcover]

A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book brings together the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebellion and the experience of emancipation. Klein first traces the evolution of slavery and forced labor systems in Europe, Africa, and America, and then depicts the life and culture which some twelve million slaves transported from Africa over five centuries experiences in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Particular emphasis is on the evolution of the sugar plantation economy, the single largest user of African slave labor. The book examines attempts of the African and American-born slaves to create a viable and autonomous culture, including their adaption of European languages, religions, and even kinship systems to their own needs. Klein also describes the type and intensity of slave rebellions. Finally the book considers the important and differing role of the "free colored" under slavery, noting the unique situation of the Brazilian free colored as well as the unusual mobility of the free colored in the French West Indies. The book concludes with a look at the post-emancipation integration patterns in the different societies, analyzing the relative success of the ex-slaves in obtaining control over land and escaping from the old plantation regimes.

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, Used [Hardcover]

6. Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic, Used [Paperback]

The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, "Natural Mysticism" shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of leading reggae artists such as Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley.

Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic, Used [Paperback]

7. Pre-Owned Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath (Paperback) 0722165617 9780722165614

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Title: Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath Book Format: Import ISBN10: 0722165617 EAN: 9780722165614 Author: Hugh O'Shaughnessy CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects, 1492-1900 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture), Used [Hardcover]

Probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society Defines and traces the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region's unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs 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 Car

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects, 1492-1900 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture), Used [Hardcover]

9. Perspectives on Cuba and Its People [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Perspectives on Cuba and Its People by Theodore A. Braun

Perspectives on Cuba and Its People, Used [Paperback]

10. Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (Latin American Histories) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality --is fully investigated as a source not only of national tension but of competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice which would eventually determine the form and function of Cuban mobilization. Perez integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of the Cuban history of struggle for nationality. The new, second edition includes the latest research on Cuba, adding a new chapter on the political and economic changes that have occurred since the Soviet Union stopped subsidizing for the Cuban economy.

Cuba : Between Reform and Revolution, Used [Paperback]