Bookshelf 2012

Vanderbilt University Press, 2011, cloth US$ 25.00) Haiti: After the Earthquake, by Paul Farmer, edited by Abbey Gardner & Cassia Van Der Hoof Holstein (New York: PublicAffairs, 2011, paper US$ 16.99) Pak's Britannica: Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited by Lynne Macedo (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2011, paper US$ 25.00) Talking Words: New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen, edited by Lynne Macedo (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2011, paper US$ 25.00) Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance, by Emily Zobel Marshall (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2011, paper US$ 30.00) She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn, by Oneka LaBennett (New York: New York University Press, 2011, paper US$ 22.00) The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development, by Henry Veltmeyer & Mark Rushton (Leiden: Brill, 2011, cloth US$ 136.00) Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the Past?, edited by Fernne Brennan & John Packer (New York: Routledge, 2012, cloth US$ 135.00) The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law, by Jenny S. Martinez (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, cloth US$ 29.95) Expansionism: Its Effects on Cuba's Independence, by Frank R. Villafaña (Edison NJ: [...]Jeroen Leinders wrote a historical novel, Tula: Verloren vrijheid (Schoorl, the Netherlands: Conserve, 2012, paper euro17.99), about the enslaved leader of the revolt in Curaçao in 1795. Endowments and Institutions, by Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, paper US$ 34.99) [previously published articles on rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America] New Perspectives on Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean, edited by Marten Schalkwijk & Stephen Small (Den Haag: Amrit, 2011, paper euro17.50) In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974, by Brenda Gayle Plummer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, paper US$ 29.99) Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas, edited by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, cloth US$ 85.00) [includes one chapter each on Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago] Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections, edited by Anna KasafiPerkins, Donald Chambers & Jacqueline Porter (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, cloth US$ 84.86) Re-constructing Place and Space: