LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

The University of Alabama Press

ARCHAEOLOGY BELOW THE CLIFF

Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society

Matthew C. Reilly Sep 2019 264pp, 24 illustrations 9780817320287 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00 Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class.

A GREAT FEAR

Luís de Onís & the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812

Timothy Hawkins Jan 2019 256pp 9780817320041 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Atlantic Crossings This book explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain was overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest state.

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

Erika Denise Edwards Oct 2019 200pp 9780817320362 Hardback £58.95 / €66.00 Argentina values the perception that it is a country of European immigrants. This book traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a “black disappearance” by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a “white” Argentina.

HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE CARIBBEAN

Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism

Edited by Todd M. Ahlman & Gerald F. Schroedl Oct 2019 272pp, 30 b&w figures, 9 maps, 15 tables 9780817320324 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage.

POLACOS IN ARGENTINA

Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

Mariusz Kalczewiak Dec 2019 344pp, 23 b&w figures, 5 tables 9780817320393 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Series An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s. Mariusz Kalczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies.

THE SAINTS OF PROGRESS

A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity

Carmen Kordick Jan 2019 312pp, 26 b&w figures 9780817320027 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Chronicles the development of the Tarrazú Valley, a historically remote coffee-growing region. Carmen Kordick traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.

TAXING BLACKNESS

Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

Norah L.A. Gharala Mar 2019 336pp, 9 b&w figures 9780817320072 Hardback £58.95 / €66.00 Atlantic Crossings During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This book examines this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime.

The University of Arizona Press

AGRARIAN REVOLT IN THE SIERRA OF CHIHUAHUA, 1959–1965

Elizabeth Henson Mar 2019 272pp, 17 b&w illustrations 9780816538737 Hardback £58.95 / €66.00 The early 1960s are remembered for the emergence of new radical movements influenced by the Cuban Revolution. One such protest movement rose in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

MEXICAN WAVES

Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930–1950

Sonia Robles Oct 2019 224pp, 17 b&w illustrations 9780816539543 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Tells the fascinating story of how borderlands radio stations shaped the identity of an entire region as they addressed the needs of the local population and fluidly reached across borders to the US.

POSTCARDS FROM THE CHIHUAHUA BORDER

Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s

Daniel D. Arreola Oct 2019 376pp, 226 colour illustrations 9780816539956 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Daniel Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern border.

Brookings Institution Press

THE CULTURAL WORLDS OF THE JESUITS IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

Edited by Linda Newson Jun 2019 200pp 9781908857620 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 Demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. It includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, religion, art, architecture, cartography, music, medicine and science.

Institute of Latin American Studies

MEMORY, MIGRATION AND (DE) COLONISATION IN THE CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

Edited by Jack Webb et al Nov 2019 250pp 9781908857651 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the interpellation of migration and (de)colonisation, paying particular attention to how these two phenomena have been experienced and have impacted upon one another in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

Institute of Latin American Studies

Bucknell University Press

FORGOTTEN FUTURES, COLONIZED PASTS

Transnational Collaboration in NineteenthCentury Greater Mexico

Cara Anne Kinnally Jun 2019 240pp 9781684481224 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9781684481231 Hardback £84.95 / €97.00 Using close readings of literary texts, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by writers from Greater Mexico, this book brings to light the forgotten imaginings of how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, and the US in the nineteenth century.

University Press of Florida

ARCHAEOLOGY OF DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES OF THE ENSLAVED IN THE CARIBBEAN

Edited by James A. Delle & Elizabeth C. Clay Nov 2019 256pp 9781683400912 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period.

DISTILLING THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL

Aguardiente in Guatemalan History

Edited by David Carey Jr Jan 2019 228pp, 9 b&w photos 9780813064222 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 The alcohol economy also helped shape Guatemala’s turbulent categories of ethnicity, race, class, and gender, as these essays demonstrate. Established and emerging Guatemalan historians investigate aguardiente’s role from the colonial era to the twentieth century, drawing from archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic sources.

EXILE AND REVOLUTION

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

Gerald E. Poyo Jan 2019 318pp, 8 b&w photos 9780813064260 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Provides a comprehensive account of how the author’s great-great-grandfather spurred the working-class community of Key West to become critical actors in the struggle for Cuban independence. The book reveals the depth of Cuba’s ties to Florida; the experience of Cubans in the American South; and intrigues involving Spain, Cuba, and the US.

THE GUERRILLA LEGACY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

Anna Clayfield Apr 2019 224pp, 8 b&w illustrations 9781683400899 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 Challenges contemporary Western views on the militarization of Cuba. Anna Clayfield argues that, while the pervasiveness of armed forces in revolutionary Cuba is hard to refute, it is the guerrilla legacy, ethos, and image – guerrillerismo - that has helped the Cuban revolutionary project survive.

THE INVENTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

Football and the Making of Modern Brazil

Gregg Bocketti Jan 2019 320pp, 20 b&w photos 9780813064277 Paperback £28.95 / €33.00 In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of football in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as “foot-ball” at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian “futebol,” o jogo bonito (the beautiful game).

KEY TO THE NEW WORLD

A History of Early Colonial Cuba

Luis Martínez-Fernández Oct 2019 236pp 9781683401278 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 In these often-overlooked centuries, Martinez-Fernandez finds the roots of many of Cuba’s enduring economic, political, social, and cultural complexities. The result is a sweeping history, a seminal text that makes clear that to fully grasp revolutionary or contemporary Cuba we must first understand what came before.

THE MARITIME HERITAGE OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

Roger C. Smith Aug 2019 256pp, 55 b&w photos, 18 figures, 9 maps 9780813068091 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Blending elements of geography, archaeology, and ethnography, this readable, illustrated history offers a fascinating portrait of all aspects of Caymanian nautical traditions and describes how an intrepid and independent group of islanders flourished on the frontiers of the sea.

RITUAL, VIOLENCE, AND THE FALL OF THE CLASSIC MAYA KINGS

Edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk & Sonja A. Schwake Sep 2018 384pp 9780813064055 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Maya Studies Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands.

Ian Randle Publishers

UNMASKING THE STATE

Politics, Society and the Economy in Guyana, 1992-2015

Arif Bulkan & Alissa Trotz Sep 2019 594pp 9789766379810 Paperback £39.50 / €45.00 Offers a detailed and nuanced examination of the post1992 period in Guyana, within a larger context where historical divisions, persistent attempts to tinker with and reinterpret the defective 1980 constitution, and systemic and institutional failures have produced waves of authoritarianism and corruption.

McFarland

ESCAPE FROM CUBA

Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled Castro’s Regime

Edited by Eloy L. Nuñez & Ernest G. Vendrell Oct 2019 190pp, 115 photos 9781476676043 Paperback £44.95 / €49.00 In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly to the United States. This book tells the stories of these Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great obstacles to escape the Castro regime.

University Press of Mississippi

MULATA NATION

Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba

Alison Fraunhar Oct 2019 272pp, 62 colour illustrations 9781496825667 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 Caribbean Studies Series Throughout Cuban history, the mulata features prominently in visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure through historical eras, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world.

University of New Mexico Press

CONTESTED NATION

The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile

Pilar M. Herr Dec 2019 168pp 9780826360946 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía - because of its status as a separate nation-state - became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

MEXICO IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

Donald Fithian Stevens May 2019 320pp 9780826360557 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780826360540 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Diálogos Series This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

A MOST SPLENDID COMPANY

The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective

Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint May 2019 448pp 9780826360229 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint’s deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540.

NACIÓN GENÍZARA

Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico

Edited by Moises Gonzales & Enrique R. Lamadrid Dec 2019 376pp, 39 illustrations 9780826361073 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Querencias Series Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. Contributors cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

THE ORIGINS OF MACHO

Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Jun 2019 288pp 9780826360403 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9780826360397 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Diálogos Series Basing the study of colonial Mexican masculinity on the experiences of mainstream men, Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In doing so she establishes an important foundation for gender studies in Mexico and Latin America.

PROTESTANTISM AND STATE FORMATION IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY OAXACA

Kathleen M. McIntyre Jun 2019 288pp 9780826360243 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Traces conflicts stemming from Protestant conversion in southern Mexico and demonstrates that both Protestants and Catholics deployed cultural identity as self-defence in clashes over power and authority. This is an important addition to the literature on transnational religious movements, gender, and indigenous identity in Latin America.

VICTORY ON EARTH OR IN HEAVEN

Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion

Brian A. Stauffer Dec 2019 440pp, 15 illustrations 9780826361271 Hardback £79.95 / €90.00 This work reconstructs the history of Mexico’s forgotten “Religionero” rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

THE WAR HAS BROUGHT PEACE TO MEXICO

World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State

Halbert Jones Mar 2019 312pp 9780826351319 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexico, the conflict had an influence on the country’s political development. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis of the early 1940s played a part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.

A WOMAN, A MAN, A NATION

Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina

Jeffrey M. Shumway Nov 2019 312pp, 29 illustrations 9780826360908 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780826360892 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Diálogos Series In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Juan Manuel de Rosas’s version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose selfimposed exile. Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history for both scholars and students.

University of Notre Dame Press

COLONIAL LOYALTIES

Celebrating the Spanish Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Lima

María Soledad Barbón Oct 2019 264pp, 10 illustrations 9780268106454 Hardback £58.95 / €66.00 Provides a study of how Lima’s residents engaged in civic festivities in the eighteenth century. Scholarship on festive culture in Latin America has largely centred on “fiestas” as a medium through which the colonizing Iberians naturalized their power. María Soledad Barbón contends that this perspective addresses only one side of the equation.

FROM REVOLUTION TO POWER IN BRAZIL

How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership

Kenneth P. Serbin Jun 2019 460pp 9780268105853 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00

Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organisation National Liberating Action, Serbin’s is the first book to bring the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present.

POPULATION GROWTH, SOCIAL SEGREGATION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR IN LIMA, PERU, 1940–2016

Henry A. Dietz Sep 2019 236pp 9780268106133 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00 As one of South America’s larger capital cities, Lima, Peru, is remarkably understudied as a demographic and economic entity unto itself. In this important book, Henry Dietz presents an in-depth historical, sociological, and political analysis of a major Latin American city in the post–World War II period.

SANDINISTAS

A Moral History

Robert J. Sierakowski Dec 2019 356pp 9780268106898 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Offers a new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories, offer a new vantage point beyond geopolitics and ideologies to understand the role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans.

The University of North Carolina Press

A BLACK JURIST IN A SLAVE SOCIETY

Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship

Keila Grinberg Dec 2019 232pp 9781469652771 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9781469652764 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg’s compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

CARIBBEAN NEW ORLEANS

Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society

Cécile Vidal Jun 2019 552pp, 10 halftones 9781469645186 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them.

FREEDOM ROOTS

Histories from the Caribbean

Laurent Dubois & Richard Lee Turits Dec 2019 400pp 9781469653600 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 In this powerful and expansive story of the vast Caribbean archipelago, Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits chronicle how it has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence.

INTIMATIONS OF MODERNITY

Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Louis A. Pérez Jr Feb 2019 272pp, 24 halftones 9781469651538 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era Chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence.

NO BARRIER CAN CONTAIN IT

Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War

Ariel Mae Lambe Dec 2019 320pp 9781469652856 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9781469652849 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 Envisioning Cuba Vividly recasting Cuba’s politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecedented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull.

University of Pittsburgh Press

CRISIS CULTURES

The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil

Brian Whitener May 2019 232pp 9780822965862 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 Pitt Illuminations Challenges current cultural histories of the neo-liberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the centre of the dramatic transformations of Latin American societies in the last thirty years.

CUBAN STUDIES 47

Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente Mar 2019 376pp, 21 b&w illustrations 9780822945406 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Cuban Studies Volume 47 of the Cuban Studies annual which includes a dossier on cultural politics and political cultures of the Cuban Revolution.

CUBAN STUDIES 48

Alejandro de la Fuente Jun 2019 432pp, b&w illustrations 9780822945611 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Cuban Studies In this special issue, Cuban Studies 48 explores Afro-Cuban issues. University of Pittsburgh Press

CUBAN STUDIES 49

Alejandro de la Fuente Nov 2019 432pp, 9 b&w photos and illustrations, 14 graphs, 11 tables 9780822945871 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Cuban Studies Cuban Studies 49 includes dossiers on gender and feminism, economy, and the history of education in Cuba.

THE FAILURE OF LATIN AMERICA

Postcolonialism in Bad Times

John Beverley Jun 2019 128pp 9780822945673 Hardback £39.50 / €45.00 Pitt Illuminations Offers a selection of John Beverley’s previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of postcolonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism.

MAKING AN URBAN PUBLIC

Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932

Christina M. Jimenez Jun 2019 368pp, 25 b&w illustrations 9780822945505 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Written as a social history of urbanization and popular politics, this book reinserts “the public” and “the city” into current debates about citizenship, urban development, state regulation, and modernity in the turn of the century Mexico.

Purdue University Press

GALÁPAGOS ORIGIN

Imaginarios de la evolución textual en las islas encantadas

Esteban Mayorga Nov 2019 217pp, 7 illustrations, Spanish edition 9781557538772 Paperback £50.95 / €55.00 Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galápagos Islands from their discovery to today. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement.

Rutgers University Press

IMPURE MIGRATION

Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina

Mir Yarfitz Apr 2019 208pp, 14 illustrations 9780813598154 Hardback £50.95 / €58.00 Jewish Cultures of the World Investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.

PHENOMENAL JUSTICE

Violence and Morality in Argentina

Eva van Roekel Jan 2020 250pp, 2 maps, 9 b&w images 9781978800267 Paperback £27.95 / €32.00 9781978800274 Hardback £101.00 / €115.00 Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.

Texas A&M University Press

FANÁTICOS, EXILES, AND SPIES

Revolutionary Failures on the US-Mexico Border, 1923–1930

Julian F. Dodson Apr 2019 248pp, 3 b&w photos, 3 maps 9781623497538 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Connecting the Greater West Series Borders and boundaries are porous, especially in the context of political revolutions. Historian Julian Dodson has uncovered the story of post-revolutionary Mexico’s attempts to protect its northern border from various plots hatched by groups exiled in the United States.

BESTSELLERS

The University of Arizona Press

MÉXICO BEYOND 1968

Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies

Edited by Jaime M. Pensado & Enrique C. Ochoa 2018 360pp 9780816538423 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 Examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this volume challenge the centrality of that moment by looking at the broader story of struggle and repression across Mexico during this time.

University Press of Florida

CARIBBEAN RUM

A Social and Economic History

Frederick H. Smith 2009 360pp, 26 b&w illustrations 9780813033150 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Presents the fascinating cultural, economic, and ethnographic history of rum in the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. Frederick Smith explains why this industry arose in the islands, how attitudes toward alcohol consumption have impacted the people of the region, and how rum production evolved over 400 years.

CHOCOLATE IN MESOAMERICA

A Cultural History of Cacao

2009 544pp, 91 b&w photos, 97 drawings & maps 9780813033822 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 Brings together scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, art history, linguistics, epigraphy, botany, chemistry, and cultural anthropology to explore the domestication, preparation, representation, and significance of cacao in ancient and modern communities of the Americas, with a concentration on its use in Mesoamerica.

Ian Randle Publishers

THE HILLS OF HEBRON

Sylvia Wynter 2012 340pp 9789766372576 Paperback £12.95 / €15.00 Written in the late 1950s on the cusp of Jamaica’s independence from Britain, The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life and assert themselves against the colonial power.

THE STORY OF THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE

Phillips Sherlock & Hazel Bennett 1998 448pp 9789768100306 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Sherlock and Bennett recount the epic resistance to slavery; from the acts of sabotage on the estates, the legendary exploits of Maroon heroes Cudjoe, Nanny and Tacky, to the final blow delivered by Sam Sharpe which ended slavery in Jamaica.

Markus Wiener Publishers

THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY

And Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn

Robert Wedderburn Edited by Iain McCalman 1991 192pp, illustrations 9781558760516 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. His autobiography is a vital indictment of an execrable system.

The University of North Carolina Press

MASTERY, TYRANNY, AND DESIRE

Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

Trevor Burnard 2004 336pp 9780807855256 Paperback £39.95 / €45.00 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.

The University of the West Indies Press

CARIBBEAN WARS UNTOLD

A Salute to the British West Indies

Humphrey Metzgen & John Graham 2007 277pp 9789766402037 Paperback £29.95 / €33.00 Presents the compelling story of the Caribbean during nearly five centuries of warfare, from the time of Columbus to the present decade. It demonstrates how West Indians consistently rallied to Britain’s side in its many years of peril, volunteered for service in its armed forces, or more recently also for work in its wartime factories and forests.