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1	Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Laurent DuBois, John D Garrigus add to wishlist The Haitian Revolution was 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. In this broad selection of documents, the authors clarify for students the complex political, economic, ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.19! \| SVS
2	A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 more books like this by Laurent DuBois add to wishlist The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $29.15! \| SVS
3	Sapphire more books like this by Rosemary Rogers add to wishlist The legitimate daughter of a courtesan, Sapphire Fabergine heads to London to claim her rightful inheritance. She discovers that her father is dead and his title has passed to Blake Thixton, a distant American cousin. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
4	Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 more books like this by Bernard Moitt add to wishlist Gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. In "Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848", Bernard Moitt advances this argument by detailing and analysing the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French ... see all copies from $10.94! new only from $23.94! \| SVS
5	The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste: Father and Mother, First and Last more books like this by Patricia Eakins add to wishlist A fictional autobiography of an autodidactic African slave who describes "the tribulations of bondage in the sugar isles", his escape and how he was marooned, his subsequent trials and adventures, and how his ambitions were realized in strange and unexpected ways. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	School days more books like this by Patrick Chamoiseau add to wishlist This novel tells the story of a young boy's school days in Martinique, one of the last colonial possessions of France. His earliest education is an enjoyable form of play with letters and sounds. But once at school he discovers that real education is about learning to be French. see all copies from $5.71! new only from $17.92! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Fourth Century more books like this by Edouard Glissant, Ms. Betsy Wing (Translator) add to wishlist The fortunes of two intertwined families parallel the fortunes of Martinique, where this epic novel is set. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? more books like this by Professor Philip P Boucher add to wishlist Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has until now been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this region - and particularly France's role in them - in the two ... see all copies from $14.02! new only from $14.90! \| SVS
9	Edouard Glissant more books like this by J Michael Dash add to wishlist Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature. In this first full-length study of Glissant's creative and theoretical work J. Michael Dash examines his poems, novels, plays and essays in the context of modern French literary ... see all copies from $46.35! new only from $56.86! \| SVS
10	French Island Elegance more books like this by Michael Connors add to wishlist The French-speaking islands of Martinique, Guadaloupe, Marie-Galante and Saint Martin exist in two worlds; they are both French but also very much Caribbean. Politically provinces of France, they are not merely colonial relics of their mother country's past, but vital parts of France today. Nevertheless, they breathe with a Creole style of life ... see all copies from $15.34! new only from $19.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean more books like this by Mildred P Mortimer add to wishlist Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa Aoua KZita, Mariama B, Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse CondZ, and Edwidge Danticat. It explores the hypothesis that the female protagonist moves ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $21.84! \| SVS
12 view cover	Murder in the Raw more books like this by C S Challinor add to wishlist Rex Graves flies to the Caribbean paradise of St. Martin to investigate the disappearance of Sabine Durand, a beautiful French actress. But the Scottish barrister didn't expect the turquoise waters and white sandy beaches to be filled with so much nudity. Apparently, Sabine was staying at a naturist resort. Not even a few pints of Guinness can ... see all copies from $3.28! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The French Colonial Question, 1789-1791: Dealings of the Constituent Assembly with Problems Arising from the Revolution in the West Indies more books like this by Mitchell B Garrett add to wishlist see all copies from $14.85! new only from $16.83!
14	The French Antilles more books like this by Andy Gerald Gravette add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.84!
15 view cover	The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean more books like this by Doris Lorraine Garraway add to wishlist Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a path-breaking contribution to the study of the cultural ... see all copies from $16.40! new only from $29.17! \| SVS
16 view cover	Refusal of the Shadow more books like this by Michael Richardson (Translator), Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Translator) add to wishlist In 1932, at the very peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne in Paris established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime Defense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet its publication began a remarkable series of ... see all copies from $10.91! new only from $18.69! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Robert Louis Stein add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $19.50! \| first editions
18	The French in the West Indies, more books like this by Walter Adolphe Roberts add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00! first editions
19 view cover	Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane more books like this by Christian Filostrat add to wishlist The author assesses European and French colonialism in the Caribbean and the racial and cultural movements of black and mixed-race people in the French-speaking West Indies and Guyane during the first half of the 20th century. see all copies from $21.79! new only from $24.68! \| SVS
20	Black Frenchmen: The Political Integration of the French Antilles more books like this by Arvin Murch add to wishlist see all copies from $6.30! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Edouard Glissant more books like this by Michael Dash, Jean M Dash, Abiola Irele (Editor) add to wishlist Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature. In this first full-length study of Glissant's creative and theoretical work J. Michael Dash examines his poems, novels, plays and essays in the context of modern French literary ... see all copies from $26.97! new only from $26.97! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Memoirs of Pere Labat, 1693-1705: First English Translation more books like this by Jean Baptiste Labat, Jean Baptiste, Baptiste Jean add to wishlist During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships. His adventures in this turbulent period are varied, but it is in the descriptions of the lives of the different races that the value of his memoirs resides. see all copies from $148.63! new only from $148.63! \| SVS
23 view cover	Development Planning: The Test of Facts more books like this by Louis DuPont add to wishlist 68.00 see all copies from $5.40! new only from $53.12! \| first editions
24 view cover	Race, Culture and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Negritude to Creolite more books like this by Shireen K Lewis add to wishlist In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. see all copies from $23.00! new only from $28.42! \| SVS
25	Historical Dictionary of the French and Netherlands Antilles more books like this by Albert L. Gastmann add to wishlist see all copies from $5.84! new only from $34.87! \| first editions

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