...Anthony Bryan Slaves, Free Men, Citizens: West Indian Perspectives . Edited by Comitas Lambros and Lowenthal David . Garden City, New York , 1973 . Anchor Press/Doubleday . Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 340 . Paper. $2.50 . Work and Family Life...

...Gwendolyn M. Hall The Laws of the British Colonies, in the West Indies and Other Parts of America Concerning Real and Personal Property and Manumission of Slaves with a View of the Constitution of Each Colony . 2 vols. in 1. By Howard John Henry . Westport, Connecticut , 1970 (1827...

... for the popular reader. West of the West has other merits. It is well written, and the selection of topics is interesting in some respects. For example, the authors have endeavored to paint the history of California before the Gold Rush in the broad sweep of a Russian account, an English account...

...Steven Topik The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization . By Carmagnani Marcello . Translated by Giammanco Frongia Rosanna M. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Maps. Bibliography. Index. xi, 316 pp. Paper , $28.95 . Copyright © 2014...

...Cameron B. Strang Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies . By Dillman Jefferson . Atlantic Crossings . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2015 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 249 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Copyright © 2016...

... could have added to the strength of the text. Also of interest could have been a review of the works produced by Afro-Hispanics and West Indian descendants during the same time periods, as well as the writings of individuals who identified with both groups. In all, Watson's study is an important text...

.... It is scholarly without diminishing readability. It does have some negative aspects, however. Chomsky’s comparison of banana plantation workers’ lives with those of slaves on West Indian sugar plantations is a good idea in itself, but it is used so often that it appears to be a mere device to put the company...

... the West, reinterpreted the Gospel, or rejected consumerism and modernity. Illich argued that it was better for Latin American Catholics to do without priests rather than face exposure to American values. But Hartch posits that maybe Catholics in Latin America didn't want to be on the margins...

...Michele A. Johnson Igniting the Caribbean’s Past: Fire in British West Indian History . By Richardson Bonham C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2004 . Photographs. Illustration. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 233 pp. Cloth , $71.95 . Paper...

...Clement W. Meighan The book presents a sizeable portion of the total published corpus of tomb figures from West Mexico. It is an essential reference, and because of the many illustrations it has popular interest as well. Hasso von Winning’s book is a well-produced presentation of the pottery...

...P.L. Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824 with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds and for cabinets of natural history . By Waterton Charges . Edited by Matthews L. Harrison...

...Franklin W. Knight Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies . By Craton Michael . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1983 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Chronology. Glossary. Index . Pp. 389 . Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University...

... of the Americas. Each country editor (listed below) deals with the evolution of party ideology, changes in organization, membership and leadership, and each party’s impact upon society. Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Political Parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West...

...Raphael Folsom The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524 – 1550 . By Altman Ida . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xx , 340 pp. Paper , $28.95 . Copyright...

...Patricia Seed Additional factors highlighted by Mapp include the distance of the West from the established colonial centers of each group and the difficulties in reaching the interior of what is now the United States. Spaniards faced a lengthy and difficult overland trek to reach California...

...Seymour Drescher Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815–1859 . By Dorsey Joseph C. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2003 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 311 pp. Cloth...

...Frederic Cople Jaher The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450–1800 . Edited by Bernardini Paolo and Fiering Norman . European Expansion and Global Interaction , vol. 2 . Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Indexes...

...Karl Jacoby The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains . By Flores Dan . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 285 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright 2002...

...Malcolm Ebright Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900 . By Montoya María E. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 299 pp...

...). The second book is Walton Look Lai’s comparative study of Chinese and Indian contract workers in the British West Indies. The first part analyzes the pull factors in the British Caribbean and the push factors in India and China that led to Asian indentured labor. After describing the organization...