It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe.

In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries.

This text views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power.

As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.

P.C. Emmer, one of the most prominent experts in this field, tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century–much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese–and goes on to show how the trade ...

This forgotten yet momentous conflict, in which lives were consumed by the thousands, is this book's main focus.In this ambitious monograph, Philippe Girard employs the latest tools of the historian's craft, multi-archival research in ...

Assembled from his campaign diary, this is an account of the Cuban revolutionary war by guerilla leader Che Guevara.

Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Later they were forced to flee to Mexico, where their relationship grew stronger and where, stimulated by Hilda, Che's convictions were shaped.

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

In Santería Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression.