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Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750, edited by L.H. Roper & B. Van Ruymbeke (Elizabeth Mancke)

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century, by Alejandro de la Fuente with the collaboration of César García del Pino & Bernardo Iglesias Delgado (Luis Martínez-Fernández)

The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688, by Benerson Little (Peter R. Galvin)

Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory, edited by Charles Stewart (Raquel Romberg)

The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, by Vincent Brown (João José Reis)

Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, edited by Gad Heuman & David V. Trotman (Flávio Gomes)

Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807, by John J. Clune Jr. (Fernando Picó)

A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica 1655-1844, by Lucille Mathurin Mair, edited by Hilary McD. Beckles & Verene A. Shepherd (A. Lynn Bolles)

Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation, by Samuel Martínez (Michiel Baud)

The Caribbean City, edited by Rivke Jaffe (Gary W. McDonogh)

From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology, by Noel Leo Erskine (reviewed by John W. Pulis)

Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic, by Elaine Bauer & Paul Thompson (Dwaine Plaza)

Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean, edited by Holger Henke & Karl-Heinz Magister (Kimberly Eison Simmons)

A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, by V.S. Naipaul (Sue Thomas)

Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas, by Sarah Phillips Casteel (Supriya Nair)

The 'Air of Liberty': Narratives of the South Atlantic Past, by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (A. James Arnold)

The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade, by Christopher L. Miller (Sue Peabody)

Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, edited by Doris L. Garraway (reviewed by Maria Cristina Fumagalli)

Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell (reviewed by David Geggus)

Mozayik: yon konbit literè ann Ayisyen, edited by Woje E. Saven & Drèksèl G. Woudsonn (reviewed by Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique)

Cuban Currency: The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction, by Esther Whitfield (Myrna García-Calderón)

Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956, by Reinaldo L. Román (reviewed by Jalane D. Schmidt)

Martorell: La aventura de la creación, by Antonio Díaz-Royo (Sally Price)

Performing the Caribbean Experience: Music in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 2, edited by Malena Kuss (Timothy Rommen)

The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City, by César Miguel Rondón (Halbert Barton)

Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World, by Christopher C. Fennell (Mark Kostro)

Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean, edited by Basil A. Reid (Derek R. Miller)

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