Gerald Horne. Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xv + 359 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-3668-5.
Reviewed by Peter Cole (Department of History, Western Illinois University) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2007)
The Most Dangerous Black Man in the Atlantic World?
Russell Menard. Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2006. xvii + 181 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-2540-0.
Reviewed by Pamella Richardson (Oxford University Centre for the Environment) Published on H-Caribbean (April, 2007)
Stephen G. Rabe. U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 240 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5639-0; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2979-0.
Reviewed by Alvin Thompson (Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2006)
David Beriss. Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. xx + 156 pp. $19.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8133-4254-2.
Reviewed by Sara Abraham (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga) Published on H-Caribbean (August, 2006)
Créolité
Henry James Ross. Thoughts on the Objectionable System of Labour for Wages in the West India Colonies and of the Necessity of Substituting a System of Tenancy and Allotment of the Staple Cultivation. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. 124 pp. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-637-226-2.
Franklin W. Knight, Teresita Martinez-Vergne, eds. Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 312 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2972-1.
Reviewed by Dave Ramsaran (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University) Published on H-Caribbean (July, 2006)
Juanita De Barros. Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xii + 251pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-2455-2.
Reviewed by David Dodman (Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica) Published on H-Caribbean (May, 2006)
James Robertson. Gone Is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000. Kingston and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. xviii + 477 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-637-197-5.
Reviewed by Colleen A. Vasconcellos (University of West Georgia) Published on H-Caribbean (May, 2006)
Constance Sutton, ed. Revisiting Caribbean Labour: Essays in Honour of O. Nigel Bolland. Kingston and New York: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. vii + 168 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-976-637-190-6.
Reviewed by Linden Lewis (Department of Sociology, Bucknell University) Published on H-Caribbean (May, 2006)
Labor's Centrality Revisited
Diana Paton. No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870. Next Wave: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 291 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-3398-2; $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-3401-9.
Reviewed by Bridget Brereton (Department of History, University of the West Indies, St Augustine) Published on H-Caribbean (May, 2006)
Laurent Dubois. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 437 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5536-2.
Reviewed by Stewart R. King (Mount Angel Seminary) Published on H-Caribbean (November, 2005)
FrÖ©dÖ©ric RÖ©gent. Esclavage, MÖ©tissage, LibertÖ©: La RÖ©volution FranÖ§aise en Guadeloupe 1789-1802. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2004. 507 pp. EUR 22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-2-246-64481-1.
Reviewed by Gene Ogle (John Cabot University, Rome) Published on H-Caribbean (January, 2005)
Mimi Sheller. Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xvi + 270 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1883-6.
Reviewed by Sue Peabody (Department of History, Washington State University Vancouver) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2002)
Patrick Taylor, ed. Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii + 220 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21431-7; $39.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-253-33835-8.
Reviewed by Robert J. Stewart (Trinity School, New York City) Published on H-Caribbean (September, 2002)
Bernard Moitt. Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xviii + 218 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-21452-2.
Reviewed by Sue Peabody (Department of History, Washington State University--Vancouver) Published on H-Caribbean (May, 2002)
A Point of Comparison: Enslaved Women in France's Caribbean Colonies
