Caribbean & West Indies - General
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Puerto Rico: Historia de Una Naci?n / Puerto Rico: A National History
$18.95 Add to cartUna novedosa y osada visi?n de la historia de Puerto Rico, desde la ?poca precolombina, hasta hoy d?a.
La historia de Puerto Rico ha estado marcada por conquistas y resistencias. A lo largo de los sigl
- Author: Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 6073909101
- Language: Spanish
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
$19.00 Add to cartA 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- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724672
- Language: English
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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
$20.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th… [more below]
- Author: Goffe, Tao Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593684915
- Language: English
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Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
$35.00 Add to cartA hugely entertaining social history of the elite and exclusive Caribbean island of St. Barth?lemy from the New York Times bestselling author of Model and 740 Park.
St. Barthelemy is revered for its lu
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063410966
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
$24.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus’s arrival in the Bahamas in 1492.
A Brief History of the Carib- Author: Rogozinski, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0452281938
- Language: English
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced–now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul P… [more below]
- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0807024120
- Language: English
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Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
$21.99 Add to cartAn “urgent, fascinating, and impassioned” (Daniel Immerwahr) history of Puerto Rico’s 122 years as a colony of the United States
Since its acquisition by the United States in 1898, Puerto Rico has s- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 164503075X
- Language: English
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Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
$31.00 Add to cartA powerful, groundbreaking new history of Britain and the Caribbean, challenging existing thinking about British colonization and recontextualizing the twin stories of contemporary inequality in both … [more below]
- Author: Umoren, Imaobong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 198217501X
- Language: English
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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
$35.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th… [more below]
- Author: Goffe, Tao Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549911
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: A National History
$18.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, P- Author: Mel?ndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 069123129X
- Language: English
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The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
$27.00 Read moreFrom a noted archeologist/anthropologist, the story of the Tainos–the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas–from their earliest days to their rapid decline after European… [more below]
- Author: Rouse, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 1993
- ISBN10: 0300056966
- Language: English
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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The Buccaneers of America
$14.95 Add to cartA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country’s colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters amo
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Exquemelin, Alexander O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2000
- ISBN10: 048640966X
- Language: English
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If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, King of the Caribbean Pirates
$16.99 Read moreIn a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He d… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510772634
- Language: English
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00 Read moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartDespite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware th… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Roorda, Eric Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0822357003
- Language: English
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HISTORY OF PIRATES – True Story of the Most Notorious Pirates: Charles Vane, Mary Read, Captain Avery, Captain Blackbeard, Captain Phillips, John Rack
$18.50 Add to cartThe famous history that inspired so many adventure novels, movies and most recently Black Sails & Pirates of the Caribbean. Find out the truth behind the legend: Table of Contents: – Of Captain Avery,… [more below]
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8027331714
- Language: English
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Via the Roundabout: The Scobie family’s story of resolve and resilience from 1819 through Emancipation, the Colonial Era, and beyond.
$65.99 Add to cartFamily histories are a genre of ethnohistory that at once educate and enthrall family and friends alike. Not all members of a clan care to know about their roots, often fearing that they’ll discover p… [more below]
- Author: Scobie, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: October 29 2022
- ISBN10: 9768244496
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: A National History
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, P- Author: Mel?ndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691231273
- Language: English
