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      Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society, From Emancipation to the Present

      Covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint’s Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic…

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      Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados - From Clement Payne to Owen Arthur

      Hilary Beckles

      The remaking of colonial Barbados as a postmodern nation state has its political roots buried deep within the past. In Chattel House Blues, Hilary Beckles sets out to rewrite modern…

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      Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience

      Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood’s Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in…

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      A Spirit of Dominance: Cricket and Nationalism in the West Indies: Essays in Honour of Viv Richards on the 21st Anniversary of His First Debut

      The essays in this volume are the revised texts of an eight-part public lecture series on West Indian cricket history and culture organized by the Centre for Cricket Research at…

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      The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s Barbados, 1636-1876

      Hilary Beckles

      In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados’s history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new…

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      Saving Souls: The Struggle to End the Transatlantic Trade in Africans

      Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd

      The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented…

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      Trading Souls: Europe’s Transatlantic Trade in Africans

      Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd

      The Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by its victims, mostly at…

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      Caribbean Slave Society and Economy: A Student Reader

      Hilary Beckles

      A fascinating comparison of slavery in the different societies of the Caribbean.

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      The First West Indies Cricket Tour: Canada and the United States in 1886

      Hilary McD. Beckles

      The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour to Canada and United States. The first match was played against the Montreal Cricket Club, 16-17 August…

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      Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

      Hilary McD. Beckles

      Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now…

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      How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty

      Hilary McD. Beckles

      Focuses on the British Empire and shows how successive governments have systematically suppressed economic development in their former colonies and have refused to accept responsibility for the debt and development…

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      A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market

      Hilary McD. Beckles

      In this second edition, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect the considerable number of writings recently published on Barbados.

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      The Development of West Indies Cricket: The Age of Nationalism

      Hilary Beckles (Professor of History, University of the West Indies, West Indies)

      In this first volume Professor Hilary Beckles examines the short-lived first rising of West Indian cricket supremacy, arguing that it sent a clear message to the world that the newly…

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      The Development of West Indies Cricket: The Age of Globalization

      Hilary Beckles (Professor of History, University of the West Indies, West Indies)

      In this second volume, Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is…

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      Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems

      Hilary McD. Beckles,Verene A. Shepherd

      An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean’s leading historians.

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      Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood

      Hilary McD. Beckles,Verene A. Shepherd

      An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean’s leading historians.

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      Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture

      Brings together US and Caribbean based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture, and economy. Using the concept of diasporic citizenship as a central theoretical frame, this…

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      Brain Train: Quality Higher Education Carribbean

      Hilary McD. Beckles,Anthony Perry,Peter Whiteley

      A Twenty-First Century Manifesto: The University of the West Indies and beyond.

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