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New Caribbean Titles from Ian Randle Publishers, April 2005

FIU Libraries recently purchased a significant number of new titles from Ian Randle Publishers, one of the foremost publishers of Caribbean materials. Numerous areas of study are represented in these new titles, including literature, history, education, politics, economics, development, health, gender, security issues and art. Several new titles focus on regional and integration issues, through discussion of CARICOM (Caribbean Community), the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice, and the push towards integration of Caribbean countries into CSME (Caribbean Single Market Economy). All of the newly received titles were published between 2004-2005. Check the library catalog for holdings.

Some new titles:

Caribbean imperatives : regional governance and integrated development
The Caribbean economy : a reader Dennis Pantin (ed.)
Education and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Michael J. Kelly, Brendan Bain
Globalisation, diaspora and Caribbean popular culture Christine G.T. Ho and Keith Nurse (eds.)
Gone is the ancient glory : Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000 James Robertson
Making West Indian literature Mervyn Morris
Rastafarian art Wolfgang Bender (ed.)
Sweetening "bitter sugar" : Jock Campbell, the Booker reformer in British Guiana, 1934-1966 Clem Seecharan
We want justice : Jamaica and the Caribbean Court of Justice Delano Franklyn
Beyond the blood, the beach & the banana : new perspectives in Caribbean studies Sandra Courtman (ed.)
The birth of Caribbean civilisation : a century of ideas about culture and identity, nation and society O. Nigel Bolland (ed.)
CARICOM : our Caribbean community : an introduction CARICOM Secretariat
The Caribbean : an intellectual history, 1774-2003 Denis M. Benn
Caribbean drugs : from criminalization to harm reduction Axel Klein, Marcus Day and Anthony Harriot (eds.)
Caribbean security in the age of terror : challenge and change Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith (ed.)
Chattel house blues : making of a democratic society in Barbados, from Clement Payne to Owen Arthur Hilary McD. Beckles
Gender in the 21st century : Caribbean perspectives, visions and possibilities Barbara Bailey and Elsa Leo-Rhynie (eds.)
Puerto Rico : freedom and power in the Caribbean Gordon K. Lewis
Reclaiming development : the Caribbean in an era of globalisation
Rebellion to riot : the Jamaican church in nation building Devon Dick
Silk cotton & other trees : poems Hazel Simmons-McDonald
The West Indian novel and its background Kenneth Ramchand

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