Book Reviews

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David Scott; Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Shalina Puri) Rebecca J. Scott; Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha) Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (ed.); Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World (Dianne M. Stewart) Londa Schiebinger; Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (J.D. La Fleur) F. Abiola Irele, Simon Gikandi (eds.);The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature (A. James Arnold) Sean X. Goudie; Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic (J. Bradford Anderson) Doris Garraway; The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (Charles Forsdick) Adélékè Adéèkó; The Slave’s Rebellion: Fiction, History, Orature (Owen Robinson) J. Brooks Bouson; Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother (Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert) Gary Wilder; The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Nick Nesbitt) Fernando Picó; History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of its People (Francisco A. Scarano) Peter E. Siegel (ed.); Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico (William F. Keegan) Magali Roy-Féquière; Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel) Katherine E. Browne; Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag (David Beriss) Louis A. Pérez, Jr; To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (Matt D. Childs) John Lawrence Tone; War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Gillian McGillivray) Frank Argote-Freyre; Fulgencio Batista: From Revolutionary to Strongman (Javier Figueroa-De Cárdenas) Juanita de Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman (eds.); Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History (Bernard Moitt) Matthew Mulcahy; Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783 (Bonham C. Richardson) Michaeline A. Crichlow; Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development (Christine Chivallon) Peta Gay Jensen; The Last Colonials: The Story of Two European Families in Jamaica (Karl Watson) Marc Tardieu; Les Antillais à Paris: D’hier à aujourd’hui (David Beriss) Rhonda D. Frederick; “Colón Man a Come”: Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration (Michael L. Conniff) James Robertson; Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000 (Philip D. Morgan) Philippe R. Girard; Paradise Lost: Haiti’s Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World Hotspot (Carolle Charles) Michael Deibert; Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Carolle Charles) Ellen de Vries; Suriname na de binnenlandse oorlog (Aspha E. Bijnaar) In: <i> New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids</i> no. 82 (2008), no: 1-2, Leiden