History index
Articles are arranged chronologically, with most recent pieces first. Return to main subject index here.
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Caribbean and diaspora
Under the weather, by David Knight, Jr (review of Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution, by Sherry Johnson), October 2016
Grandfather’s backpay, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide, by Hilary McD. Beckles), August 2015
Happy families, by Bridget Brereton (review of The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies, by Matthew Parker), January 2012
Best of British?, by Dylan Kerrigan (review of Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonisation, by Anne Spry Rush), November 2011
The imperial African, by Daniel Whittal (review of Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora, by Marika Sherwood), September 2011
Freedom’s shadows, by Brendan de Caires (review of Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom, by Anthony Bogues), September 2011
Head of the class, by Kelly Baker Josephs (review of You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, ed. David Austin), July 2010
His own man, by John T. Gilmore (review of Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by Vincent Carretta), February 2006
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Cuba
Merry monarchs, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Cuban Fiestas, by Roberto González Echevarría), September 2011
Shades of history, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence, ed. and trans. Mark A. Sanders), January 2011
Dominican Republic
Taíno revisited, by Nicholas Laughlin (review of The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno, ed. Lesley-Gail Atkinson, and Taíno Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King, by William F. Keegan), August 2007
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Guyana
Into the dark waters, by Nishant Batsha (review of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Adventure, by Gaiutra Bahadur), August 2016
As it was in the beginning, by Nicholas Laughlin (review of Prehistoric Guiana, by Denis Williams), August 2005
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Haiti
Colour wars, by J. Michael Dash (review of Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957, by Matthew J. Smith), September 2010
History’s garden, by Nicolette Bethel (review of Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations, by Sidney W. Mintz), July 2010
Fact and fury, by Gavin O’Toole (review of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, by Randall Robinson), November 2008
Great black hope, by Jeremy Taylor (review of Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell), November 2007
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Jamaica
History’s garden, by Nicolette Bethel (review of Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations, by Sidney W. Mintz), July 2010
Death’s other kingdom, by Brendan de Caires (review of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, by Vincent Brown), November 2008
Consider the camel, by Anu Lakhan (review of Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, by B.W. Higman), November 2008
What’s in a name, by Bridget Brereton (review of Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, by Maureen Warner-Lewis), May 2008
Taíno revisited, by Nicholas Laughlin (review of The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno, ed. Lesley-Gail Atkinson, and Taíno Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King, by William F. Keegan), August 2007
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Puerto Rico
History’s garden, by Nicolette Bethel (review of Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations, by Sidney W. Mintz), July 2010
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Trinidad and Tobago
Under the gun, by Mark Lyndersay (review of Days of Wrath: the 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago, by Raoul A. Pantin), May 2008
Doctor, doctor, by Judy Raymond (review of Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean, by Colin A. Palmer), November 2007
