Rutgers University

Department of History

Graduate Colloquium

Revolt, Revolution, War, Empire and Subaltern Agency in the Caribbean: from the War of Spanish Succession (1701) to the Cuban Revolution (1959)

Prof. Aldo A Lauria Santiago
alauria@rci.rutgers.edu

Office Hours M 2:30-4:00; by appointment

This graduate seminar will attempt to integrate three "fields" or approaches that intersect in the Caribbean:

• Traditional imperial history which emphasizes European rivalry, war and empire/state formation
• So-called Atlantic history which emphasizes cultural and commercial links across the Atlantic (often with a north-north emphasis...)
• The bottom-up history of the subaltern which often underemphasizes state formation, empire and war but places sailors, slaves, artisans, peasants, coolies, workers at the center of historical narratives

These three literatures and approaches have had extensive runs in asynchronous moments over the last few decades with many rich cross conversation and productive dialogues.Our readings will seek to integrate, juxtapose or challenge narratives of empire, subaltern agency and communication over two hundred and fifty years of imperial transformations. Can we really discuss 18th century wars and early 19th century revolutions in the same frame as the rise of the US's "backyard" empire in the Caribbean Basin or the Cuban Revolution? And how do we integrate complex arguments about process and cause/effect when we are reviewing literatures that would seem to have completely opposite causal and explanatory frames? Bottom-up approaches to local people began by Caribbeanist anthropologists like Sidney Mintz and later reinvigorated by the Marxist working class historiography which turned to study peasants and slaves in the 1980s. Are these semi-ethnographic approaches that emphasize regional and local diversity compatible with the comparative study of empire and war? Studies of empire, war, revolt and revolution are as old as the empires themselves and very often neglected in the training of Latin Americanists. Every 10 or 15 years it seems a new approach is offered up and a new angle added to the traditional mix There are many layers to unravel here.Atlantic history is a growing literature, a label popular in the last 20 years but around far longer. It is perhaps no different in many ways from the empire/war paradigm but perhaps the first to integrate a look at working people by looking at African diasporas as more than simply  slave trade.You might wonder where "race" is...it's everywhere in these stories. No need to highlight it now…it’s embedded in everything even when not made explicit. Perhaps the study of Atlantic whiteness is still lacking, in dialog with the "creolization" literature. Gender? That’s for you to put in if the literature allows. As you'll see rom the readings it's not always a present category. All the same, there is much to explore here. Some of the questions we'll be asking:

• Is there an alternative chronology that acknowledges all the relevant themes without ignoring "levels" but that centers the experiences and agencies of the people of the Caribbean?
• Does "Atlantic History" do justice to the Caribbean?
• Is slavery overstudied? What has the persistent focus on "slavery" helped hide?
• Does the importance of "local" concepts, useful only in particular creole societies and junctures, debunk the possibilities of long-sweep, comparative history?
• Does the "Atlantic" work in a single manner in the literature or are the indeed multiple, overlapping (or not touching at all) Atlantics?  Is the African Diaspora largest, most unifying theme that connects the Caribbean to the Atlantic in recent literature?
• What happened to the history of capital and commodities?
• Are there other population movements through imperial-built channels that deserve attention?
• Ultimately, is it possible to balance global/Atlantic themes with in-depth studies of “creole” societies and popular life/agency?

• There are few true Caribbeanists...the region's history is richer and far more complicated than we think...
• Hispanic vs Anglo vs French Caribbeanist training and assumptions
• Three centuries is a long time...500 is even longer...
• What is the Caribbean geo-historically anyway?
• Can we really do justice to Colombia/Panama, Venezuela, the Guyanas?

To some extent this course is inspired by the embedded insights in Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces (translated into English as Explosion in a Cathedral). You might want to read it as a companion to the course.   It is one of Latin America's most important novels. The connection lies in its depiction of common, anonymous people caught in the widening process of war, revolution and colonial/de-colonial formation during the French revolution in the Caribbean.

This is an ambitious course. No one is an expert in all of this.  Its success will depend on our enthusiasm and investment. You are welcome to suggest readings and themes. There are only a few readings that are canonical and obligatory...but there are themes and questions that are inescapable. Our working definition of the Caribbean is broad and inclusive. It includes what is commonly described as the Caribbean Basin and all regions that make contact with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Linked more by a shared history than a clear geographical definition, the Guyanas and the Bahamas are often included in this sort of perspective.

Requirements:

We will read about two books and one article a week. Then you'll carve a path through the extensive bibliography for a comparative historiographic paper. You will need to decide on what you are writing about by November 1.

Every student will be responsible for in-class presentation and set-up for discussion for one week, including any of the recommended or self-chosen additional readings as appropriate.

Extended Bibliography

Themes and Readings

Required items have been requested for Reserve.

Reference Items on Reserve:

• Wilson, Peter H. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe Blackwell companions to history. Malden, MA: Blackwell,, 2008.
• Stephan Palmie & Francisco A. Scarano, eds. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. University of Chicago Press. 2011.
• Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World : Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

1. Peopling and Stating the Caribbean--ports, soldiers, early plantations, early slavery, 1500 to 1700

REQUIRED

• Jan Rogozinski. A brief history of the Caribbean. On Sakai.
• Fuente, Alejandro de la, C esar Garc ia del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias Delgado. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century Envisioning Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
• Richard Lee Turits. "New World of Color: Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Dominican History."
  

REVIEW

• Hulme, Peter. Colonial Encounters : Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London ; New York: Routledge, 1992.Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Paquette, Robert L. and Stanley L. Engerman. The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.
• Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves; the Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill,: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., 1972.

RECOMMENDED:

• Posada Carbó, Eduardo. The Colombian Caribbean : A Regional History, 1870-1950. Oxford [England] ; New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
• Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Chapel Hill; Williamsburg, Va.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
• Baugh, Daniel A. The Global Seven Years War, 1754-1763 : Britain and France in a Great Power Contest.  Harlow, UK ; New York: Longman, 2011.
• Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 Studies in Comparative World History. Cambridge England ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Providence Island, 1630-1641 the Other Puritan Colony. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press , 1993
• Rupert, Linda Marguerite. Creolization and Contraband : Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
• Gragg, Larry Dale. Englishmen Transplanted the English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press , 2003.
• Boucher, Philip P. Cannibal Encounters : Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
• Bridenbaugh, Carl and Roberta Bridenbaugh. No Peace Beyond the Line; the English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690 .  New York,: Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Caänizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Puritan Conquistadors : Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.
• Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Providence Island, 1630-1641 the Other Puritan Colony. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press , 1993
• Heywood, Linda M. and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Kagan, Richard L. and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic Diasporas : Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Kagan, Richard L. and Geoffrey Parker. Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World : Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott. Cambridge England ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge, 1995.
• Klooster, Wim, Norman Fiering. The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800. Providence, R.I.: John Carter Brown Library, 1997.
• Mac ias Richard, Carlos. El Caribe Mexicano : Origen Y Conformaci on, Siglos Xvi Y Xvii. 1a. ed. Mexico, D.F.: Universidad de Quintana Roo ; Miguel Angel Porr ua, 2006.
• Postma, Johannes and V. Enthoven. Riches from Atlantic Commerce : Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2003.
• Shaw, Jenny. Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference. Athens: The University of Georgia Press , 2013.

2. Atlantic history?

REQUIRED

• Greene, Jack P. and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic History : A Critical Appraisal Reinterpreting History. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

REQUIRED PICK ONE

• Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery : From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. London ; New York: Verso, 1997.
• Linebaugh, Peter, Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press , 2000.

REVIEW

• Klooster, Wim. Revolutions in the Atlantic World : A Comparative History. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

RECOMMENDED:

• O'Flanagan, Patrick. Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, C. 1500-1900. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2008.
• Thornton, John K. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820.
• Schwartz, Stuart B. Tropical Babylons : Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
• Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness. London ; New York: Verso, 1993.

3. Empire formation and the long European and North American wars of the 18th Century and/in the Caribbean, 1700 to 1789 [Peter]

REQUIRED

• Duffy, Michael. Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower : The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War against Revolutionary France. Oxford Oxfordshire
  New York: Clarendon Press ;
  Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Marshall, B. "The Black Carib Native Resistance to British Penetration into the Windward side of St. Vincent, 1763 1773," Caribbean Quarterly, 19 (1973).

Pick One:

• Bollettino, Maria Alessandra. "Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years’ War " Austin, Tex.: University of Texas, 2009. [Dissertation]
• Elena Schneider. "The Occupation of Havana: Slavery, War, and Empire in the Eighteenth Century." [Dissertation]

REVIEW

• Kuethe, Allan J. and Kenneth J. Andrien. The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century : War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796.
• Pressly, Paul M. On the Rim of the Caribbean : Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
• McNeill, John Robert. Atlantic Empires of France and Spain : Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

RECOMMENDED:

• Baugh, Daniel A. The Global Seven Years War, 1754-1763 : Britain and France in a Great Power Contest. Harlow, UK ; New York: Longman, 2011.
• Carrington, Selwyn H. H. The British West Indies During the American Revolution. Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde. Dordrecht, Holland ; Providence, U.S.A.: Foris Publications, 1988.
• Hofstra, Warren R. Cultures in Conflict : The Seven Years' War in North America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
• Barbier, Jacques A. and Allan J. Kuethe. The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819. Manchester ; Dover, N.H., USA: Manchester University Press, 1984.
• Lewis, James A. The Spanish Convoy of 1750 : Heaven's Hammer and International Diplomacy. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009.

4. Slavery, violence, struggle, anti-slavery [Aldo]

REQUIRED:

Pick one overview

• Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. London ; New York: Verso, 1988.
• Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838. Kingston; Bloomington; London: Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) ; Indiana University Press ; J. Currey, 1990.
• Palmie, Stephan. Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995
• Craton, Michael. Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica; Oxford, U.K. Princeton: Ian Randle ; James Currey ; Markus Wiener, 1997.
• Vincent Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Terror in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Ojo, Olatunji and Nadine Hunt. Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean : A History of Enslavement and Identity since the 18th Century. London ; New York; New York: I.B. Tauris ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Shepherd, Verene. Slavery without Sugar : Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the 17th Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Pick one local study

• Garrigus, John D. Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains : Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982.
• Diptee, Audra. From Africa to Jamaica : The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010.
• Mullin, Michael. Africa in America Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. Urbana: University of Illinois Press , 1992.
• Tomich, Dale W. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar : Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848 Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
• Goveia, Elsa V. Slave Society in the British Leewards Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century Caribbean Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
• Dorsey, Joseph C. Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition : Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
• Ghachem, Malick W. The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Hall, N. A. T. and B. W. Higman. Slave Society in the Danish West Indies : St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

REVIEW:

• Williams, Eric Eustace. Capitalism & Slavery. Chapel Hill,: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1944.

RECOMMENDED:

• Roberts, Justin. Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807.
• The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, ed. Moira Ferguson.
• Tomich, Dale W. Through the Prism of Slavery : Labor, Capital, and World Economy World Social Change. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
• Higman, B. W. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
• Lovejoy, Paul E. and Nicholas Rogers. Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World. London ; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1994
• Hall, Douglas and Thomas Thistlewood. In Miserable Slavery Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1999
• Burnard, Trevor G. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire : Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. Chapel Hill ; London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
• Drescher, Seymour. Econocide : British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
• Carrington, Selwyn H. H. The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002.
• Matthews, Gelien. Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
• Meriäno Fuentes, Mar ia de los Angeles and Aisnara Perera D iaz. Un Caf e Para La Microhistoria : Estructura De Posesi on De Esclavos Y Ciclo De Vida En La Llanura Habanera, 1800-1886. La Habana,: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2008.
• Schafer, Daniel L. Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. And the Atlantic World Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.

5. French and Haitian Revolutions and the Caribbean/Atlantic [Nelson]

REQUIRED [The revolution itself]

• Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World : The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
• Geggus, D. P. (2002). Haitian revolutionary studies. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press.
  

READ A FEW CHAPTERS AT WILL [Impact and implications]

• Selected chapters. Bender, Thomas, Laurent Dubois, Richard Rabinowitz. Revolution! : The Atlantic World Reborn. London; New York: D Giles Ltd ; New York Historical society, 2011.
• Selected Chapters. Geggus, D. P. and N. Fiering (2009). The world of the Haitian Revolution. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
• Selected chapters. Gaspar, David Barry and David Patrick Geggus. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
  
• Selected Chapters. Calarg e, Carla. Haiti and the Americas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi , 2013.
• Selected chapters. Desan, Suzanne, Lynn Hunt and William Max Nelson. The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013.
• Selected Chapters.  Geggus, David Patrick. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 2001.
• Chaps XX . Bessel, Richard, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

REVIEW [More archival based history of the revolution; Excellent 2 intro chapters]

• Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. 6th printing. ed. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
• Landers, Jane. Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

RECOMMENDED:

• Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens : Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
• Geggus, David Patrick. Slavery, War, and Revolution : The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Girard, Philippe R. The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon : Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011.
• Popkin, Jeremy D. You Are All Free : The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• White, Ashli. Encountering Revolution : Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
• Serna, Pierre, Antonino De Francesco and Judith A. Miller. Republics at War, 1776-1840 : Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850.
• Dubois, Laurent and John D. Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 : A Brief History with Documents. Boston, MA ; New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006.
• Johnson, Ronald Angelo. Diplomacy in Black and White John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance. Athens ; London: University of Georgia Press , 2014.

6. Settler, "Free" and "Freed" people in colony, empire, and republic [Kevin]--Oct. 16

PICK ONE:

• Cohen, D. W. and J. P. Greene (1972). Neither slave nor free; the freedman of African descent in the slave societies of the New World. Baltimore,, Johns Hopkins University Press.
  
• Matthew Smith, Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation (Chapel Hill: UNC, October 2014).

PICK ONE:

• Newton, Melanie J. The Children of Africa in the Colonies : Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008
• Zacek, Natalie. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

RECOMMENDED:

• Temperley, Howard. After Slavery: Emancipation and Its Discontents Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures,. London ; Portland, Frank Cass, 2000.
• Mintz, Sidney Wilfred and Sally Price. Caribbean Contours. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
• King, Stewart R. and ebrary Inc. Blue Coat or Powdered Wig Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press , 2001.
• Handler, Jerome S. The Unappropriated People : Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2009.
• Cox, Edward L. Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
• Bilby, Kenneth M. True-Born Maroons. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
• Brathwaite, Kamau. The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820. New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1978.
• Selected Chapters.  Brereton, Bridget and Kevin A. Yelvington. The Colonial Caribbean in Transition : Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Kingston, Jamaica;  Gainesville: Press University of the West Indies ; University Press of Florida, 1999.
• Butler, Kathleen Mary. The Economics of Emancipation : Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
• Byrd, Alexander X. Captives and Voyagers : Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
• Cohen, David William and Jack P. Greene. Neither Slave nor Free; the Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History. Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.
• Kale, Madhavi. Fragments of Empire : Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean Critical Histories. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
• Look Lai, Walton. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar : Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
• López, Kathleen. Chinese Cubans : A Transnational History Envisioning Cuba.
• Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. [1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Press, 1973.
• Schuler, Monica. "Alas, Alas, Kongo" : A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

7. Spanish crisis, Liberal constitutionalism, Latin American wars of independence and the Caribbean [Tara] Oct. 23

NOTE: I have not been able to find a monograph on the crisis of Spanish empire via the Caribbean, 1800-1820s

• Ada Ferrer. "Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery," Review, Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 31-3-2008.
• Hernan Venegas, "Los planes colombo-mexicanos de expedicion conjunta para la liberacion de Cuba (1820-1827)." Caribbean Studies, 36:1 Jan-June 2008.
• Paquette, Robert L. Sugar Is Made with Blood : The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. Middletown, Conn. Scranton, Pa.: Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row, 1988.
• Childs, Matt D. The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery Envisioning Cuba. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

OPTIONAL:

• Mongey, Vanessa. "Cosmopolitan Republics and Itinerant Patriots: The Gulf of Mexico in the Age of Revolutions (1780s--1830s)." Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

RELATED:

• Stein, Barbara H., Stanley J. Stein. Edge of Crisis War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press , 2009.
• Fradera, Josep Maria and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Eastman, Scott. Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
• Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. The Conquest of History : Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
• Reid-Vazquez, Michele and ebrary Inc. The Year of the Lash Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press , 2011.
• Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher Empire and Antislavery Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press , 1999.

8. Intra-Caribbean dynamics, lesser imperialisms, margins, borderlands and peripheries, geographic and chronologic [Jessica] Oct. 30

READ:

• Chinea, Jorge Luis. Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The West Indian Immigrant Worker Experience in Puerto Rico, 1800-1850. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

RECOMMENDED:

• Candlin, Kit. The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Devine, T. M. Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2004.
• Hamilton, Douglas. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
• Jarvis, Michael. In the Eye of All Trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
• Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
• Levinson, Sanford and Bartholomew H. Sparrow. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
• McMichael, F. Andrew. Atlantic Loyalties : Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
• Putnam, Lara. The Company They Kept : Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

9. Caribbean, American and European liberalisms, republicanisms, and anti-colonial movements in the mid-19th century and imperial politics [Billy and VISIT BY ELLER SECOND HALF] Nov 6

PICK ONE:

• Sheller, Mimi. Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
• Holt, Thomas C. The Problem of Freedom Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press , 1992.

READ THIS:

• Eller, Anne E. "America Should Belong to Itself: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for a Free Caribbean." MS DO NOT CIRCULATE!! BURN AFTER PRINTING! DELETE AFTER READING!

RECOMMENDED:

• Sheller, Mimi B. 2000. "The army of sufferers: Peasant democracy in the early republic of Haiti". New West Indian guide 74, (1& 2): 33-55.
• Sheller, Mimi B. 1997. "Sword-bearing citizens: Militarism and manhood in nineteenth-century Haiti" Plantation society in the Americas 4, no. 2&3: 233-78.
• Scott, R. J. (1985). Slave emancipation in Cuba : the transition to free labor, 1860-1899. Pittsburgh, Pa., University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Rugemer, Edward Bartlett. The Problem of Emancipation : The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
• Daughton, J. P. An Empire Divided Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Moreno Fraginals, Manuel, Frank Moya Pons, Stanley L. Engerman. Between Slavery and Free Labor : The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
• Picó, Fernando. One Frenchman, Four Revolutions : General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011.
• Paton, Diana. No Bond but the Law : Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 Next Wave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
• Bakan, Abigail B. Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica : The Politics of Rebellion. Montréal ; Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
• Moore, Brian L. Race, Power, and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society : Guyana after Slavery, 1838-1891,. New York: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, 1987.
• Bowen, Wayne H. Spain and the American Civil War Shades of Blue and Gray Series. Columbia Mo. ; London: University of Missouri Press, 2011.
• Curtin, Philip D. Two Jamaicas; the Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865. New York,: Greenwood Press, 1968.
• Kenny, Gale L. Contentious Liberties : American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
• Mart inez Heredia, Fernando, Rebecca J. Scott and Orlando Garc ia Mart inez. Espacios, Silencios Y Los Sentidos De La Libertad : Cuba Entre 1878 Y 1912. Ciudad de La Habana: Ediciones Uni on, Uni on de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 2001.
• Sartorius, David A. Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba.

10. Plantations, commodities, capital, commerce, technologies and empire [Ed] Nov 13

READ:

• Garcia Muäniz, Humberto. Sugar and Power in the Caribbean : The South Porto Rico Sugar Company and the Domonican Republic 1900-1921. San Juan, Puerto Rico: La Editorial, 2010.

IF INTERESTED IN PRE 20th Century FIND ALTERNATE:

• Lamikiz, Xabier. Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World : Spanish Merchants and Their Overseas Networks. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2010.
• Jose Guadalupe Ortega. "The Cuban sugar complex in the age of revolution, 1789-1844." 2007.Dissertation.
• Rodney, Walter. A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
• Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1985.
• Parker, Matthew. The Sugar Barons : Family, Corruption, Empire and War. London: Hutchinson, 2011.
• Moya Pons, Frank. History of the Caribbean : Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2007.
• Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures : A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
• Kurlansky, Mark. Cod : A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. New York: Walker and Co., 1997.
• Stinchcombe, Arthur L. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Selected Chapters. Knight, Franklin W. and Peggy K. Liss. Atlantic Port Cities : Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World 1650-1850. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
• Mandle, Jay R. The Plantation Economy; Population and Economic Change in Guyana, 1838-1960. Philadelphia,: Temple University Press, 1973.
• Johnson, Sherry. Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
• Cosner, Charlotte. Golden Leaf : How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World. Vanderbilt Univ Press, 2015.
• Dávila Cox, Emma Aurora. Este Inmenso Comercio : Las Relaciones Mercantiles Entre Puerto Rico Y Gran Bretaña, 1844-1898. 1. ed. San Juan, PR: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1996.
• Emmer, P. C. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880: Trade, Slavery and Emancipation Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998.
• Higman, B. W. Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. Jamaica ; Barbados ; Trinidad and Tobago: UWIPress, 2005.

11. US Empire and Caribbean colonial/nation-state formation [BRIAN] Nov 20

READ:

• Ferrer, Ada. Insurgent Cuba : Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

HIGHLY RECOMENDED:

• Petras, Elizabeth McLean. Jamaican Labor Migration : White Capital and Black Labor, 1850-1930. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988.
• Gobat, Michel. Confronting the American Dream : Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Newton, Velma. The Silver Men : West Indian Labour Migration to Panama, 1850-1914. Rev. ed. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2004.
• May, Robert E. The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
• Wiley, James. The Banana : Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization At Table. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
• Jackson, Justin. "The Work of Empire : The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913." Ph D, Columbia University, 2014.
• Langley, Lester D. The Banana Wars : United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002.
• Bolland, O. Nigel. The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean : The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001.
• Colby, Jason M. The Business of Empire : United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America The United States in the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
• Donoghue, Michael E. Borderland on the Isthmus : Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone American Encounters/Global Interactions.
• Go, Julian. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism Politics, history, and culture. Durham: Duke University Press , 2008.
• Horne, Gerald. Race to Revolution : The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow.
• Lipman, Jana K. Guant anamo : A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution American Crossroads. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
• Yerxa, Donald A. Admirals and Empire : The United States Navy and the Caribbean, 1898-1945. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
• Perez, Louis A. Cuba in the American Imagination : Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

12. Labor and peasant responses to British, Spanish and US colonialism: WWI, Depression and WWII [Mathew] Dec 4

READ:

• McGillivray, Gillian. Blazing Cane Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Durham: Duke University Press , 2009.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:

• Smith, Richard. Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War : Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness. Manchester ; New York; New York: Manchester University Press ; Palgrave, 2004.
• Whitney, Robert and Graciela Chailloux Laffita. Subjects or Citizens : British Caribbean Workers in Cuba, 1900-1960.
• Smith, Matthew J.. Red and Black in Haiti Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press , 2009.

RECOMMENDED

• Post, Ken. Arise Ye Starvelings : The Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and Its Aftermath Series on the Development of Societies. The Hague ; Boston: Nijhoff, 1978. [PDF in sakai]
• Palmer, Colin A. Freedom's Children the 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
• Parker, Jason C. Brother's Keeper : The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Worker in the Cane : A Puerto Rican Life History The Norton Library. New York: Norton, 1974.
• Bolland, O. Nigel. The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean : The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001.
• Browne, David V. C. Race, Class, Politics and the Struggle for Empowerment in Barbados, 1914-1937. Kingston ; Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2012.
• Chamberlain, Mary. Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean : Barbados, 1937-66. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
• Bakan, Abigail B. Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica : The Politics of Rebellion. Montréal ; Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
• McPherson, Alan L. The Invaded How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press , 2014..
• Cox Alomar, Rafael. Revisiting the Transatlantic Triangle : The Constitutional Decolonization of the Eastern Caribbean. Kingston ; Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2009.
• Diederich, Bernard. 1959 : The Year That Inflamed the Caribbean. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009.
• Marel Garc ia, Gladys. Insurrection and Revolution : Armed Struggle in Cuba, 1952-1959 Studies in Cuban History. Boulder, Colo.: L. Rienner Publishers, 1998.