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Paperback. Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the diary of plantation owner Thistlewood. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illustrations, 3 tables, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 3JF; BGH; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855256
- ISBN
- 9780807855256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.74
€ 57.74
Exploring the tropical flavours and rich culinary traditions of Puerto Rixo with Jose Santaella's collection of recipes, inspired by the locals. Num Pages: 256 pages, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KJP; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1372.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780789327437
- ISBN
- 9780789327437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.61
€ 38.61
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006301
- ISBN
- 9780253006301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.47
€ 27.99
€ 26.47
Through analysis of cultural production that often countered governmental intentions for official diplomacy, Jennifer Ruth Hosek offers a broad-reaching history of the influence of the global South on the global North. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442641389
- ISBN
- 9781442641389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.15
€ 69.15
paperback. Demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also shows that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJWJ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073274
- ISBN
- 9780252073274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.52
€ 30.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. This work explores where Puerto Rico's economy is in the 21st century, why, and how its challenging state of affairs might be improved. It covers the political, historical, and social forces that that accompanied Puerto Rico's course from the 1940s to the first decade of the 21st century. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Pub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781588261472
- ISBN
- 9781588261472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.72
€ 32.72
paperback. A classic ethnographic exploration of historical consciousness on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Num Pages: 320 pages, 112 b&w photos, 1 table, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJWWM; HBJK; HBLL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338239
- ISBN
- 9780822338239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.24
€ 38.24
Paperback. Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 music examples, 42 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; ASD; AVGW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199965823
- ISBN
- 9780199965823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.36
€ 86.36
paperback. Celebrates Havana's citizens. From images of buildings which combine classical influences with splashes of vibrant colour to intimate portraits of the people, this book offers fresh and realistic presentation of Havana. Num Pages: 144 pages, 97 Colour. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AJB; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 244 x 18. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780789209276
- ISBN
- 9780789209276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.51
€ 22.51
paperback. Written by one of the Caribbean's most eminent historians and history educators, this best-selling series has been extensively revised and updated to meet the educational requirements of studying History at lower secondary level in the Caribbean. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations (some col.), col. maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 4KHF; 4KHJ; YQH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 8. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748797424
- ISBN
- 9780748797424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.86
€ 31.86
hardcover. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBTS; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820348025
- ISBN
- 9780820348025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.51
€ 87.51
Paperback. Written by one of the Caribbean's most eminent historians and history educators, this best-selling series has been extensively revised and updated to meet the educational requirements of studying History at lower secondary level in the Caribbean. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 4KHF; 4KHJ; YQH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 189 x 246 x 8. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748797417
- ISBN
- 9780748797417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199765096
- ISBN
- 9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.88
€ 195.88
Paperback. For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride. This book traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Editor(s): Fuertes, Digna Castaneda. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395878
- ISBN
- 9781566395878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.51
€ 47.99
€ 42.51
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Pathfinder Books Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 83
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873487290
- ISBN
- 9780873487290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.43
€ 9.43
Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345994
- ISBN
- 9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.54
€ 46.54
Paperback. Deeply rooted in Haiti's culture and held sacred by millions, Haitian Vodou is a joyous and profound ancestral practice descended from the Vodu priesthood of West Africa. This title explores from Haiti's culture and history to the sacred beliefs, ceremonies, rituals, and practices grounded in ancestral communion. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: 1KJH; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 351.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Llewellyn Publications,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738730691
- ISBN
- 9780738730691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.68
€ 20.99
€ 20.68
Paperback. A masterful account of one of the most disastrous missteps in in American foreign policy, The Bay of Pigs gives the engrossing story of the US-backed invasion of Cuba in April of 1961 by 1400 exiled Cubans. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199754250
- ISBN
- 9780199754250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.52
€ 20.99
€ 20.52
Paperback. Series: Global Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, map, music, ports. BIC Classification: 1KJ; AVA; AVGW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195375053
- ISBN
- 9780195375053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.28
€ 137.28
Paperback. The Power of Race in Cuba analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress, racial attitudes and activism through the lens of Cuba. This work gives a nuanced portrait of black identity and draws from the many black spaces, both formal and informal to highlight black consciousness on the island. Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPA; JPF; JPFN; JPHL. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190632304
- ISBN
- 9780190632304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70