Caribbean & West Indies
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The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs
$20.99 Add to cartA “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961.
At t- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596534
- Language: English
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Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
$30.00 Add to cartSecret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramati- Author: Houghton, Vince
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774574
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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The Natural History of the Bahamas: A Field Guide
$34.95 Add to cartTake this book with you on your next trip to the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands or keep it close to hand in your travel library. The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensi
- Author: Currie, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501713671
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: A National History
$32.00 Add to cartA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, P- Author: Mel?ndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691231273
- Language: English
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The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Karla, Gottlieb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0865435650
- Language: English
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Representing Blackness: The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
$35.00 Add to cartDr Donna E. McFarlane Curator and Director of the Marcus Mosiah
Garvey Multimedia Museum (2003-2017) carefully reconstructs the history
of Jamaica’s museums, and the world of new museum studies centered- Author: McFarlane, Donna E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9766409196
- Language: English
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A Cruising Guide to the Turks and Caicos Islands
$42.95 Add to cartA Cruising Guide to The Turks and Caicos Islands, 3rd ed.: with expanded Dominican Republic coverage, is a new, updated and improved version of the Turks and Caicos Guide we originally produced during… [more below]
- Author: Pavlidis, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: September 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1892399407
- Language: English
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
$47.93 Add to cartHistory is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their … [more below]
- Author: Leogrande, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1469626608
- Language: English
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Fodor’s InFocus St. Maarten/St. Martin, St. Barth & Anguilla
$14.99 Add to cartWhether you want to sunbathe on Shoal Bay in Anguilla, shop in St. Barth, or visit the Loterie Farm in St. Martin, the local Fodor’s travel experts in St. Maarten/St. Martin, St. Barth & Anguilla are
- Series: Full-Color Travel Guide
- Author: Fodor’s Travel Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1640975551
- Language: English
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
$24.00 Add to cartThe intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a her- Author: Ramonet, Ignacio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1416562338
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$19.95 Add to cartThis indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, out… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270755
- Language: English
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
$19.99 Add to cart“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana–exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. … [more below]
- Author: Eire, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0743246411
- Language: English
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Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83
$20.00 Read moreSpeeches and interviews by the central leader of the workers and farmers government in the Carribean islands of Grenada. With an introduction by Steve Clark.
- Author: Bishop, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0873486129
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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Haitian Creole Phrasebook: Essential Expressions for Communicating in Haiti
$23.00 Add to cartThe essential terms you need to communicate with the nation’s 8-plus million Haitian Creole speakers
If you are travelling to Haiti to help with the relief effort or to aid in its rebuilding, Haitian
- Author: Laguerre, Jowel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0071749209
- Language: English
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
$35.00 Add to cartSince 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 voi
- Author: Beckles, Hilary MCD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2013
- ISBN10: 976640268X
- Language: English
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.
This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168802
- Language: English
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloo
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”–Entertainment Weekly
“In Stephan Talty’s hands, the b… [more below]- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0307236617
- Language: English
