West Indies

Raphael Chijioke Njoku. West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Series. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Illustrations. 300 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58046-984-5.

Reviewed by Ivor Miller (University of Calabar) Published on H-Africa (August, 2022) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

P. J. Marshall. Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-884120-3.

Reviewed by Trevor Bryant (Florida International University) Published on H-Slavery (October, 2020) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Aline Helg. Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas. Translated by Lara Vergnaud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 368 pp. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-4964-1; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4962-7; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4963-4.

Reviewed by Jeffrey Stanley (Dalton State College) Published on H-War (November, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Elena Andrea Schneider. The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4535-3.

Reviewed by Ernesto Bassi (Cornell University) Published on H-LatAm (July, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca. The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies. Edited by Kris Lane. Translated by Timothy F. Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. lxxiv + 293 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4297-7; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4314-1.

Reviewed by Jesse Cromwell (University of Mississippi ) Published on H-LatAm (March, 2013) Commissioned by Dennis R. Hidalgo

Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 237 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-02868-5.

Reviewed by Ryan Swanson (George Mason University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2009) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

An International Community of Slaveholders

Garth L. Green, Philip W. Scher, eds. Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 240 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21883-4.

Reviewed by John Nunley Published on H-AfrArts (October, 2009) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti

Where Is the Carnival Madness? Reflection and Review

Sean X. Goudie. Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 275 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-3930-0.

Reviewed by James Dun (Department of History, Princeton University) Published on H-Atlantic (December, 2006)

Complex Creoles

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.

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo. Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 291 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-3878-5.

Reviewed by Alex Lichtenstein (Department of History, Rice University) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2006)