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Caribbean Islands - Bibliography

Caribbean Islands
Ahye, Molly. Cradle of Caribbean Dance. Port-of-Spain,
     Trinidad and Tobago: Heritage Cultures, 1983.

Alegria, Ricardo. "Etnografía Taina y los Conquistadores,"
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Augier, F.R., et al. The Making of the West Indies.
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Baedeker's Caribbean, Including Bermuda, 1987. Englewood
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Barry, Tom, Beth Wood, and Deb Preusch. The Other Side of
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Basdeo, Sahadeo. "Walter Citrine and the British Caribbean Workers
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     Pages 259-73 in Blanca Silvestrini (ed.), Politics,
     Society, and Culture in the Caribbean. San Juan:
     University of Puerto Rico, 1983.

Beckford, George L. Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in
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     University Press, 1972.

Bessil-Watson, Lisa. Handbook of Churches in the
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Blanshard, Paul. Democracy and Empire in the Caribbean.
     New York: Macmillan, 1947.

Braithwaite, Edward. The Development of Creole Society in
     Jamaica, 1770-1820. New York: Oxford University Press,
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Brana-Shute, Rosemary. A Bibliography of Caribbean Migration
     and Caribbean Immigrant Communities. Gainesville: Center
     for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1983.

Brereton, Bridget. A History of Modern Trinidad,
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------. Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870-1900.
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Bridenbaugh, Carl, and Roberta Bridenbaugh. No Peace Beyond the
     Line: The English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690. New York:
     Oxford University Press, 1972.

Brizan, George I. Grenada, Island of Conflict: From Amerindians
     to People's Revolution, 1498-1979. (Third World Studies.)
     London: Zed Books, 1984.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy, et al. Return Migration and Remittances:
     Developing a Caribbean Prospective. Washington:
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Buckley, Roger. Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India
     Regiments, 1795-1815. New Haven: Yale University Press,
     1979.

Bullbrook, J.A. On the Excavation of a Shell Mound at Palo
     Seco, Trinidad. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953.

Caldecott, Alfred. The Church in the West Indies. (New
     ed.) London: Cass, 1970. Originally published in 1898.

Campbell, Carl. "The Opposition to Crown Colony Government in
     Trinidad Before and After Emancipation, 1813-46." Page 67 in
     Barry W. Higman (ed.), Trade, Government, and Society in
     Caribbean History, 1700-1920. Kingston, Jamaica:
     Heinemann, 1983.

Campbell, Mavis C. The Dynamics of Change in a Slave Society:
     A Sociopolitical History of the Free Coloreds of Jamaica,
     1800-1865. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University
     Presses, 1976.

The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty.
     Washington: EPICA Task Force, 1985.

Chernick, Sidney E. The Commonwealth Caribbean: The Integration
     Experience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
     1978.

Clarke, Edith. My Mother Who Fathered Me: A Study of the Family
     in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica. London: Allen
     and Unwin, 1957.

Cohen, David W., and Jack P. Greene (eds.). Neither Slave Nor
     Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the Slave Societies
     of the New World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
     Press, 1972.

Collier, Simon, Harold Blakemore, and Thomas E. Skidmore (eds.).
     The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the
     Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Conniff, Michael L. Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama,
     1904-1981. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
     1985.

Cox, Edward L. Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St.
     Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833. Knoxville: University of
     Tennessee Press, 1984.

Crahan, Margaret E., and Franklin W. Knight (eds.). Africa and
     the Caribbean: The Legacies of a Link. Baltimore: Johns
     Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Craton, Michael. A History of the Bahamas. (3d ed.)
     Waterloo, Canada: San Salvador Press, 1986.

------. Searching for the Invisible Man. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1978.

------. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the
     British West Indies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
     1982.

Craton, Michael, and James Walvin. A Jamaican Plantation: The
     History of Worthy Park, 1670-1970. London: Allen, 1970.

Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and
     Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Connecticut:
     Greenwood Press, 1972.

Curtin, Philip. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census.
     Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

------. Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony,
     1830-1865. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.
     Reissued, New York: Atheneum, 1970.

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of
     Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.

------. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca:
     Cornell University Press, 1966.

Davis, Stephen, and Peter Simon. Reggae Bloodlines: In Search
     of the Music and Culture of Jamaica. (rev. ed.) New York:
     Anchor Books, 1979.

Delson, Roberta M. (ed.). Readings in Caribbean History and
     Economics. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1981.

Denevan, William M. (ed.). The Native Population of the
     Americas in 1492. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
     1976.

Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of
     Abolition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
     1977.

Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter
     Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill:
     University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Eaton, George E. Alexander Bustamante and Modern Jamaica.
     Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston, 1975.

Elliott, J.H. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716. London:
     Macmillan, 1963.

Floyd, Troy S. The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean,
     1492-1526. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
     1973.

Fortune, Stephen. Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British
     West Indian Commerce, 1650-1750. Gainesville: University
     of Florida Press, 1984.

Garcia, A. History of the West Indies. London: George C.
     Harrap, 1965.

Gaspar, Barry. Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave
     Relations in Antigua. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
     Press, 1985.

Gibson, Charles. Spain in America. New York: Harper and
     Row, 1966.

The Gleaner Geography and History of Jamaica. Kingston,
     Jamaica: Gleaner, 1973.

Gordon, Shirley C. Reports and Repercussions in West Indian
     Education, 1835-1933. London: Ginn, 1963.

Goslinga, Cornelis C. The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the
     Wild Coast, 1580-1680. Gainesville: University of Florida
     Press, 1971.

Goveia, Elsa. Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at
     the End of the Eighteenth Century. New Haven: Yale
     University Press, 1965.

Granzotto, Gianni. Christopher Columbus. The Dream and the
     Obsession: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 1985.

Green, William A. British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar
     Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865. Oxford:
     Clarendon Press, 1976.

Greene, J.E. Race and Politics in Guyana. Mona, Jamaica:
     Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the
     West Indies, 1974.

Hagelbert, G.B. The Caribbean Sugar Industries: Constraints and
     Opportunities. New Haven: Antilles Research Program,
     1974.

Hall, Douglas. Free Jamaica, 1838-1865: An Economic
     History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959.
     Reprinted, London: 1976.

Hamshere, Cyril. The British in the Caribbean. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1972.

Handler, Jerome S. The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the
     Slave Society of Barbados. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
     University Press, 1974.

Haraksingh, Kusha. "Labor, Technology, and the Sugar Estates in
     Trinidad, 1879-1914." Pages 133-46 in Bill Albert and Adrian
     Graves (eds.), Crisis and Change in the International
     Sugar Economy, 1860-1914. Edinburgh: ISC Press, 1984.

Haynes, Cleviston. "Sugar and the Barbadian Economy, 1946-1980."
     Pages 81-105 in DeLisle Worrell (ed.), The Economy of
     Barbados, 1946-1980. Bridgetown, Barbados: Central Bank
     of Barbados, 1982.

Henige, David. "On the Contact Population of Hispaniola: History as
     Higher Mathematics," Hispanic American Historical
     Review, 58, No. 2, May 1978, 217-37.

Henriques, Fernand. Children of Caliban: Miscegenation.
     London: Secker and Warburg, 1974.

Henry, Paget, and Carl Stone (eds.). The Newer Caribbean:
     Decolonization, Democracy, and Development. (Inter-
     American Politics series, 4.) Philadelphia: Institute for the
     Study of Human Issues, 1983.

Heuman, Gad J. Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the
     Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865. Westport,
     Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Higman, Barry W. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica,
     1807-1834. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

------. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean,
     1807-1834. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
     1984.

Higman, Barry W. (ed.). Trade, Government, and Society in
     Caribbean History, 1700-1920. Kingston, Jamaica:
     Heinemann, 1983.

Hill, Errol. The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National
     Theatre. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972.

Hoetink, H. Caribbean Race Relations: A Study of Two
     Variants. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Inter-American Development Bank. Economic and Social Progress
     in Latin America: 1986 Report. Washington: 1987.

Jacobs, H.P. Sixty Years of Change, 1806-1866 (Progress and
     Reaction in Kingston and the Countryside). Kingston,
     Jamaica: Planning Institute of Jamaica, 1973.

Jacobs, W. Richard, and Ian Jacobs. Grenada: Route to
     Revolution. Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1979.

Jamaica. Department of Statistics. Pocketbook of Statistics:
     Jamaica, 1983. Kingston, Jamaica: 1984.

Jones, Joseph, and Johanna Jones. Authors and Areas of the West
     Indies. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1970.

Karch, Cecilia A. "The Role of the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance
     Society During the International Sugar Crisis of the Late 19th
     Century." Pages 95-130 in K.O. Laurence (ed.), A Selection
     of Papers Presented at the Twelfth Conference of the
     Association of Caribbean Historians (1980). Bridgetown,
     Barbados: Government Printing Department, n.d.

Kiple, Kenneth. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History.
     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Klein, Herbert. African Slavery in Latin America and the
     Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Knight, Franklin W. The African Dimension of Latin American
     Societies. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

------. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented
     Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

------. "Jamaican Migrants and the Cuban Sugar Industry,
     1900-1934." Pages 94-114 in Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank
     Moya Pons, and Stanley Engerman (eds.), Between Slavery
     and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the
     Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
     Press, 1985.

Knowles, W. Trade Union Development and Industrial Relations in
     the British West Indies. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
     University of California Press, 1959.

Langley, Lester D. Struggle for the American Mediterranean:
     United States-European Rivalry in the Gulf Caribbean, 1776-
     1904. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976.

------. The United States and the Caribbean in the Twentieth
     Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982.

Laurence, K.O. Immigration into the West Indies in the 19th
     Century. London: Ginn, 1971.

Lewis, David. Reform and Revolution in Grenada, 1950-1981.
     Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1984.

Lewis, Gordon K. The Growth of the Modern West Indies. New
     York: Monthly Review Press, 1968.

------. Main Currents in Caribbean Thought. Baltimore:
     Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Lewis, W. Arthur. Labour in the West Indies: The Birth of a
     Workers Movement. (New ed.) London: New Beacon Books,
     1977.

Lindsay, Louis. The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics
     and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica. Mona, Jamaica: Institute
     of Social and Economic Research, University of the West
     Indies, 1975.

Lockhart, James, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Early Latin America:
     A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil.
     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Lovejoy, Paul E. "The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A
     Synthesis," Journal of African History, 22, No. 4,
     1982, 473-501.

Loven, Sven. Origins of the Tainan Culture. Göteborg,
     Sweden: Elanders, 1935.

Lynch, John. Spain under the Hapsburgs. (2 vols.) New
     York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

McNeill, William H. The Rise of the West. Chicago:
     University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Mandle, Jay R. Patterns of Caribbean Development: An
     Interpretative Essay on Economic Change. New York: Gordon
     and Breach, 1982.

------. The Plantation Economy: Population and Economic Change
     in Guyana, 1838-1860. Philadelphia: Temple University
     Press, 1973.

Manley, Norman Washington. Norman Washington Manley and the New
     Jamaica: Selected Speeches and Writings, 1938-1968. (Ed.,
     Rex M. Nettleford.) Kingston, Jamaica: Longmans Caribbean,
     1971.

Marshall, Woodville K. "Vox Populi: The St. Vincent Riots and
     Disturbances of 1862." Pages 85-116 in Barry W. Higman (ed.),
     Trade, Government, and Society in Caribbean History, 1700-
     1920. Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann, 1983.

Meinig, D.W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective
     on 500 Years of History, 1: Atlantic America, 1492-1800.
     New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Millette, James. The Genesis of Crown Colony Government:
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     Enterprises, 1970.

Mintz, Sidney W. Caribbean Transformations. Baltimore:
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------. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern
     History. New York: Viking Press, 1985.

Mintz, Sidney W., and S. Price (eds.). Caribbean Contours.
     Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Moore, Richard B. Caribs, "Cannibals," and Human
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Mordecai, John. The West Indies: The Federal Negotiations.
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Morison, Samuel E. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of
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Mortimer, Delores, and Roy Bryce-Laporte (eds.). Female
     Immigrants to the United States: Caribbean, Latin American,
     and African Experiences. Washington: Smithsonian
     Institution, 1981.

Munroe, Trevor. The Politics of Constitutional Decolonization:
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     Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1972.

Nettleford, Rex M. Identity, Race, and Protest in Jamaica.
     New York: Morrow, 1972.

------. Manley and the Politics of Jamaica: Towards an Analysis
     of Political Change in Jamaica, 1938-1968. Mona, Jamaica:
     Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the
     West Indies, 1971.

O'Shaughnessy, Hugh. Grenada: Revolution, Invasion, and
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Palmer, Colin A. Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to
     Latin America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
     1981.

Palmer, Ransford W. Caribbean Dependence on the United States
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------. Problems of Development in Beautiful Countries:
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     South, 1984.

Parry, John H. The Age of Reconnaissance. New York:
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Parry, John H., and Philip M. Sherlock. A Short History of the
     West Indies. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Parry, John H., Philip M. Sherlock, and Anthony P. Maingot. A
     Short History of the West Indies. (4th ed.) New York: St.
     Martin's Press, 1987.

Pastor, Robert A. (ed.). Migration and Development in the
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     Press, 1985.

Payne, Anthony. The International Crisis in the Caribbean.
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Payne, Anthony, and Paul Sutton (eds.). Dependency under
     Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth
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     1420-1620. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Puckrein, Gary A. Little England: Plantation Society and
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     University Press, 1984.

Ragatz, L. The Fall of the Planter Class in the British
     Caribbean, 1763-1833. (New ed.) New York: Octagon Books,
     1971.

Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and Its
     Background. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.

Raynal, Abbe. Philosophical and Political History of the
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     1969.

Richardson, Bonham C. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human
     Survival in St. Kitts and Nevis. Knoxville: University of
     Tennessee Press, 1983.

------. Panama Money in Barbados, 1900-1920. Knoxville:
     University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

Rodney, Walter. A History of the Guyanese Working People,
     1881-1905. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
     1981.

Ryan, Selwyn. Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago.
     Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Samaroo, Brinsley. "The Trinidad Labor Party and the Moyne
     Commission, 1938." Pages 259-73 in Blanca Silvestrini (ed.),
     Politics, Society, and Culture in the Caribbean. San
     Juan: University of Puerto Rico, 1983.

Sauer, Carl. The Early Spanish Main. Berkeley and Los
     Angeles: University of California Press, 1966.

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     Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865.
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Semmel, Bernard. Democracy Versus Empire: The Jamaica Riots of
     1865 and the Governor Eyre Controversy. New York:
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Sewell, William G. Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West
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     America. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.

Stone, Carl. Class, Race, and Political Behaviour in Urban
     Jamaica. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic
     Research, University of the West Indies, 1973.

------. Democracy and Clientelism in Jamaica. New
     Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1980.

------. Power in the Caribbean Basin: A Comparative Study of
     Political Economy. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study
     of Human Issues, 1986.

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     Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of
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     Its Lands and Peoples. (2d ed.) Englewood Cliffs, New
     Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

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     Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.

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     New World. New York: Wenner-Gren, 1956.

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     York: Russell and Russell, 1961.

------. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean,
     1492-1969. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

------. Inward Hunger: The Education of a Prime Minister.
     Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Wood, Donald. Trinidad in Transition. Oxford: Oxford
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------. The World Bank Atlas, 1986. Washington: 1986.

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