There is a surprisingly rich resource of books on the West Indies.  Only a few books on the Caribbean are commonly found in bookshops but there are an enormous range of titles in existence.  There is a fine online bibliography of West Indies books, mostly sorted by author, compiled by Don Mitchell at http://books.ai

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LUCAS E.V. A fronded isle and other essays. Books for libraries press, New York 1968 215pp. Reprint of 1928 ed., clean in original blue cloth. Includes section on Jamaica. £8 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica LYNCH L. The Barbados book. Andre Deutsch 1964 256pp + plates and ads. 1st ed., small tone spot on title page otherwise fine in torn D/W. £5 Category: West Indies Books - Barbados LYONS T.L. Matrimonial causes in Jamaica. Being a consolidation of Chapter 442 of the revised edition of the laws of Jamaica and law 23 of 1938. Unknown 1940 100pp. Clean in later library cloth binding. £4 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MACDONALD S.B. Trinidad and Tobago. Democracy and development in the Caribbean. Praeger 1986 231pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Political history. £18 Category: West Indies Books - Trinidad MACEWAN A. Revolution and economic development in Cuba. Macmillan 1981 265pp. 1st ed., ex libre with labels on inside covers and one h/s on rear of title page otherwise clean in D/W. Written from a Marxist perspective the author charts the changes before and after 1959. £6 Category: West Indies Books - Cuba MACMILLAN W.M. Warning from the West Indies. A tract for Africa and the Empire. Books for libraries Press, New York 1936 213pp + folding map. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Study of social life and peasant economy in the islands. £24 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general MADARIAGA S de Christopher Columbus. Being the life of the very magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon. Hodder & Stoughton 1939 524pp + folding plates. 1st ed., clean in shaken and worn and marked original green cloth. Biography by the noted Spanish historian. £5 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general MAGID A. Urban nationalism. A study of political development in Trinidad. Uni press of Florida. 1988 294pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Political history of the islands mostly in the period 1895-1914. £10 Category: West Indies Books - Trinidad MALIK Y.K. East Indians in Trinidad. A study in Minority Politics. Oxford Uni. Press 1971 xv + 199pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Focuses on East Indian culture and social exclusiveness and racial ethnic loyalties. £25 Category: West Indies Books - Trinidad MANDERSON-JONES R.B. Jamaican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean. 1962 - 1988. Caricom Publishers Ltd 1990 194pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. £12 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MANLEY M. The Politics of Change. A Jamaican Testament. Andre Deutsch 1974 223pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. £4 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MANLEY M. A Voice at the Workplace. Reflections on Colonialism and the Jamaican Worker. Andre Deutsch 1975 239pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. £5 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MANLEY M. Up the down escalator. Development and the International economy - a Jamaican case study. Andre Deutsch 1987 332pp. Paperback. Covers worn otherwise fine. £4 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MANLEY M. A history of West Indies Cricket. Guild Publishing, London 1988 xv + 576pp. Fine in fine D/W. Covers the period from 1906 to 1987. £8 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general MARRIAT Cap. The Pirate and the three cutters. Paris 1836 134 + 52pp. 1st ed. pub. in France, (text in English) minor tone spotting, clean in original, slightly worn decorated half leather. A popular novel at the time describing adventures of two brothers, one captured by pirates in the Caribbean. Includes short description of the Turks & Caicos Is. where the pirates were based. Bound with a short story, 'The Three Cutters.' £70 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general MARSALA V.J. Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica 1866-1874 Institute of Jamaica 1972 125pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. History of Jamaica following the Morant Bay rebellion. £45 Category: West Indies Books - Jamaica MARTIN J.B. Overtaken by events. The Dominican crisis from the fall of Trujillo to the civil war. Doubleday & Co., New York 1966 821pp + plates. 1st ed., inscribed by the author, fine in original cloth. £20 Category: West Indies Books - Dominica MARTIN K. Westindische skizzen. Reise-erinnerungen. Leiden 1887 186 large pp + 22 tinted litho plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Expedition through Suriname, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and Venezuela with much on flora and fauna and archaeology illustrated with lovely tinted plates. £80 Category: West Indies Books - Curacao MARTIN P.E. Black Press, Britons and Immigrants. Vintage Communications, Kingston, Jamaica 1998 vi + 266pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Development of West Indian newspapers in Briton following the War. £10 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general MARTIN R. MONTGOMERY History of the West Indies: comprising Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, the Bahamas, and the Virgin Isles + Vol 2 comprising British Guiana, Barbadoes, St Vincents, St Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St Christophers, &c. London 1844 xxxvi + 308 small pp + engraved plate + viii + engraved plate and two folding maps. Fine in worn original cloth. Vol. IV and V of Montgomery's British Colonial Library but complete in itself. Good descriptions of each of the islands mentioned in the titles with attractive engraved views of Kingston, Jamaica and Kingstown, St Vincent. £175 Category: West Indies Books - All Caribbean general Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Next page

Links to other West Indies sites

CaribSeek - The Caribbean Search Directory  

Caribbean Vacation Guide

http://caribbean-guide.info/

Make the Caribbean Guide your first stop for learning about the advantages of traveling to these gorgeous islands.

Family history of Jamaica

http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm

Sources of genealogy and historical information

Turks and Caicos Islands Museum

http://www.tcmuseum.org