Reviews

Author: 
Hilary McD. Beckles
Reviewer: 
Jason Michelakos

Michelakos on Beckles, 'Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide'

Hilary McD. Beckles. Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide. Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2013. 292 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-349-2.

Reviewed by Jason Michelakos (York University) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2014) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Author: 
David A. Sartorius
Reviewer: 
Gregg French

French on Sartorius, 'Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba'


David A. Sartorius. Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 336 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5593-9; $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5579-3.

Reviewed by Gregg French (Western University)
Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2014)
Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Challenging the Study of Race and Loyalty on La Siempre Fiel Isla

Author: 
Cindy Hahamovitch
Reviewer: 
James Braun

Braun on Hahamovitch, 'No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor'

Cindy Hahamovitch. No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 352 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-16015-3; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-10268-9.

Reviewed by James Braun (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2013) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Author: 
J.R. McNeill
Reviewer: 
Jefferson Dillman

Dillman on J.R. McNeill, 'Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (New Approaches to the Americas) 1st Edition'

J.R. McNeill. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (New Approaches to the Americas) 1st Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. . $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-45910-5

Author: 
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss
Reviewer: 
Bernard Moitt

Moitt on Schloss, 'Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique'

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. vi + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4172-3.

Reviewed by Bernard Moitt (Virginia Commonwealth University) Published on H-Caribbean (August, 2010) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

The Meaning of Liberty in Martinique: The Final Days of Slavery

Author: 
Kay Dian Kriz
Reviewer: 
Christer Petley

Petley on Kriz, 'Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840'

Kay Dian Kriz. Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Illustrations. 288 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-14062-0.

Reviewed by Christer Petley Published on H-Caribbean (July, 2010) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Author: 
Alejandro de la Fuente, with the collaboration of César García del Pino, Bernardo Iglesias Delgado
Reviewer: 
David Wheat

Wheat on Fuente and Pino and Delgado, 'Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century'

Alejandro de la Fuente, with the collaboration of César García del Pino, Bernardo Iglesias Delgado. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 287 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3192-2.

Reviewed by David Wheat (Michigan State University) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2009) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Author: 
Mark W. Hauser
Reviewer: 
Audrey R. Dawson

Dawson on Hauser, 'An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica'

Mark W. Hauser. An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxiii + 269 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3261-0.

Reviewed by Audrey R. Dawson (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2009) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Author: 
Thomas F. Carter
Reviewer: 
Gregg P. Bocketti

Bocketti on Carter, 'The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball'

Thomas F. Carter. The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 239 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4253-3; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4276-2.

Reviewed by Gregg P. Bocketti (Transylvania University) Published on H-Caribbean (September, 2009) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee

Author: 
Cecile Accilien
Reviewer: 
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Walcott-Hackshaw on Accilien, 'Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures'

Cecile Accilien. Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. 202 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-1657-9.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2009) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Explorations and Interrogations: Women and the Marital Terrain

Author: 
Michelle Cliff
Reviewer: 
Carine M. Mardorossian

Mardorossian on Cliff, 'If I Could Write This in Fire'

Michelle Cliff. If I Could Write This in Fire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xi + 89 pp. $21.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-5474-1.

Reviewed by Carine M. Mardorossian (University at Buffalo) Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2009) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Author: 
Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman, eds.
Reviewer: 
Christer Petley

Petley on De Barros and Diptee and Trotman, 'Beyond Fragmentation: A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonialization'

Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman, eds. Beyond Fragmentation: A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonialization. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005. 360 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55876-358-6.

Reviewed by Christer Petley Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2009) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Author: 
Jocelyne Guilbault
Reviewer: 
Stephen Stuempfle

Stuempfle on Guilbault, 'Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics'

Jocelyne Guilbault. Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Plates, illustrations. xii + 343 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-31060-2.

Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle (Indiana University) Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2009) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Contesting Calypso, Soca, and Nationhood in Trinidad

Author: 
Lucille Mathurin Mair
Reviewer: 
Barbara Bush

Bush on Mathurin Mair, 'A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844'

Lucille Mathurin Mair. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-166-5; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-178-8.

Reviewed by Barbara Bush Published on H-Caribbean (December, 2008) Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Author: 
Alvin O. Thompson
Reviewer: 
Kevin Mulroy

Mulroy on Thompson, 'Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas'

Alvin O. Thompson. Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas. Mona: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. xi + 381 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-180-1.

Reviewed by Kevin Mulroy (University of Southern California Libraries) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2007)

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