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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C L R James Publisher Comments This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize--winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Avengers of the New World : Story of the Haitian Revolution (04 Edition) by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992 : a Regional Geography (92 Edition) by Bonham C. Richardson Publisher Comments The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical... (read more) List Price $41.99 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad by Jeanine Cornillot Publisher Comments A humorous and poignant memoir of a Cuban-American girlhood lived between cultures and in the shadow of a father's incarceration Jeanine was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reyita : the Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century (00 Edition) by Maria De Los Reyes Castillo Bueno Publisher Comments Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902-1997), a black woman known as Reyita, recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita's voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story--as told to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba- And Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English Publisher Comments In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Continent of Islands : Searching for the Caribbean Destiny (93 Edition) by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from foreigners—the arts, history, politics, and economics of the region, as well as... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Vincent Brown Publisher Comments What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper's Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America--and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Hardcover
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Cuba--Going Back by Tony Mendoza Publisher Comments At the same time, "Cuba-Going Back" is an eloquent record of a personal journey back in time and memory that will resonate with viewers and readers both within and beyond the Cuban American community. It belongs on the shelves of anyone who values... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversations with Cuba by C Peter Ripley Publisher Comments Here is a fresh story behind this passionate, struggling, frequently discouraged, but always proud country, told by ordinary Cuban citizens--the people who still struggle with a revolution that is far from over. Sparked during his high school and college... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Early American Studies) by Rebecca Har Schloss Publisher Comments From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Hardcover
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Mary Prince Publisher Comments The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies and publish a record of her experiences, Prince vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her 1828 escape in England.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Slave Revolution in Caribbean 1789-1804 (06 Edition) by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments This volume details the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program by Victor Andres Triay Publisher Comments Account of the covert humanitarian effort known as Operation Pedro Pan (1960-1962) in which 14,048 Cuban children were airlifted into the U.S. Explores US role as well as the aftermath of the children's separation from parents forced to remain in Cuba.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward Publisher Comments Riveting exposé of US-led destruction of democratic government in Haiti. Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has become one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In the late 1980s a remarkable... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 by William A. Green Publisher Comments A study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century, this book draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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