BINDLEY, Thomas Herbert - Annals of Codrington College, Barbados, 1710-1910. (London: West India Committee) 66 pages, ills, 1 plate, 1911. History. Church. Religion. Anglicans. Education. Codrington College. Barbados. By a British Anglican clergyman (1861-1931); the principal of the institution,1890 -1909. Scarce. Rag, RES

 

BINGHAM, Carmen - Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That: Secret of West Indian Cooking. (Todmorden: Food & Futures Ltd) 28 pages pamph, 6 ills, 1988. Food. Nutrition. Caribbean area. A cookbook. Whi

 

BINGHAM, Hiram – [US soldier and politician (1875-1976); lieut colonel in the US army; explorer and discoverer of Machu Pichu; governor of Connecticut; US senator; chairman of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. See: “Relief of Porto . . .;“ and “To Amend the . . . “]

 

[BINGHAM, William] - A Letter from an American, Now resident in London, to a Member of Parliament on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation; and Containing Strictures on Lord Sheffield’s Pamphlet on the Commerce of the American States. (Philadelphia: Robert Bell) 24 pages 8vo pamph, 1783 1st ed; (ibidem) 24 pages 8vo pamph, 1784; (London: J Stockdale) 52 pages 8vo pamph, 1784. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Blockades. Navigation Acts. Caribbean area. The colonial carrying trade and the blockade of US shipping; favours unrestricted commercial relations with the islands. A reply to Lord Sheffield, "Observations . . ." . By a US banker (1751-1804); British consul in Martinique 1770; US Revolutionary spy in Martinique to 1780; founder of Pennsylvania Bank; US senator. See: RC Alberts. 1st edition exceptionally scarce; other issues very scarce. Web page. BL, LOC, Rag, Sab 5458, 5459

 

BINGNER, Alice Grant - A Brief history of the Cayman Islands: A Unique Community 'Founded upon the Seas.' (sl: The Author) 22 pages pamph, 1982. History. Cayman Islands. Bo.C, LOC

 

BINNEY, Ethel Mary – Caribbean Thinking Exercises. (London: U of London P) 159 pages, 1966. Education. Thinking. Caribbean area. A secondary school textbook. Com, LOC

 

BINNEY, Marcus – [Architectural correspondent for ‘The Times.’]

 

BINNEY, Marcus, and John HARRIS, and Kit MARTIN - Jamaica's Heritage, An Untapped Resource: A Preservation Proposal by Tourism Action Plan Ltd in Collaboration with the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. (Kingston: Mill P) 88 pages hb, ills, 1991; (ibidem) 88 pages pb, ills, 1991. History. Architecture. Conservation. Tourism. Jamaica. LOC

 

BINNS, Peter, and Mike GONZALES - Cuba, Castro and Socialism. (Socialist Workers Party) 40 pages pamph, 1983. Politics. Socialism. Fidel Castro. Cuba. Whi

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank – From Pillar to Post: The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora. (Toronto: TSAR) xxi,240 pages 23 cm pb, index, 1997. Sociology. Race relations. East Indians. Migration. Canada. Caribbean area. BL, LOC

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank – Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature. (London: Hansib Publishing) 186 pages 21 cm pb, 1988. Literary criticism. Caribbean area. Commentary on the literary and social history of the WI. BL, Gos, LOC

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank – [Guyanese-born Canadian academic (1938-); professor of English at York U. Web page.]

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank, ed - Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English. (London: Macmillan, Warwick U Caribbean Studies) xxiii,206 pages pb, biblio, 1996. Literary criticism. Caribbean area. LOC

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank, ed - Indenture and Exile: The Indo-Caribbean Experience. (Toronto: TSAR) 264 pages 23 cm, 1989. Immigration. East Indians. Guyana. Trinidad. A collection of conference papers; selected papers from the York Indo-Caribbean Conference, York U, Toronto, July 1988. BL, Gos, LOC

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank, ed - Indo-Caribbean Resistance. (Toronto: TSAR/ Ontario Society for Studies in Indo-Caribbean Culture) xxii,85 pages 23 cm pamph, index, 1993. Sociology. East Indians. Guyana. Trinidad. BL

 

BIRBALSINGH, Frank, and Clem SHIWCHARAN - Indo-West Indian Cricket. (London: Hansib Publishing) 135 pages 22 cm, ills, 1988. Sport. Cricket. Caribbean area. BL

 

BIRD, Adrian Curtis - Trinidad Sweet: The People, Their Culture, Their Island. (Port-of-Spain: Inprint Caribbean) 281 pages pb, 1 map, 1992. Descriptive. Trinidad. Author (1934-). Gos, LOC

 

BIRD, Esteban – Fishing off Puerto Rico. (New York: AS Barnes) 111 pages, tables, plates, maps, 1960. Sport. Fishing. Puerto Rico. The development of deep-sea fishing as a sport in PR. Viv

 

BIRD, Esteban – Report on the Sugar Industry in Relation to the Social and Economic System of Puerto Rico. (San Juan: Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, Senate Document No 1) 1937. Agriculture. Sugar. Economics. Puerto Rico. An official government report. Viv

 

BIRD, Mark Baker - The Black Man: or, Haitian Independence: Deduced from Historical Notes and Dedicated to the Government and People of Haiti. (New York: Published by the Author) xxxii,461 pages 19 cm hb, frontis, 1869 1st ed; (New York: Books for Libraries) xxxii,461 pages hb, 1971 rep; (Salem, NH: Ayer Co, Black Heritage Library Collection) xxxii,461 pages hb, 1977 rep; (London: Frank Cass, Source Books on Haiti, No 2) xxxii,461 pages hb, [date?] rep. History. Haiti. Principally the Boyer and Soulouque regimes. By an English Methodist minister (1807-1880); went to Haiti in 1840 where he established and directed the Methodist Church for 40 years. 1st edition scarce. Bay, BL, Bow, Ch.H, Cu.W, Gos, Gri, Lag, LOC

 

BIRD, Vere Cornwall – [Antiguan politician (1909-1999); former Salvation Army Captain; PM of Antigua & Barbuda. See: R Coram.]

 

Birds of Dominica and St Vincent. [London?] 1878. Wildlife. Ornithology. Dominica. St Vincent. Exceptionally scarce. Cu.W

 

Birds of the West Indies. (Kingston: Jamaica Milk Products Ltd) 15 pages pamph, 1970. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. Will

 

BIRGE, William Spoford - In Old Roseau: Reminiscences of Life as I Found it in the Island of Dominica, and among the Carib Indians. (New York: Isaac H Blanchard Co) 105 pages hb, 2 plates, 1900. Descriptive. Island Caribs. Dominica. A romantic account of his brief contact with the Caribs. By a Massachusetts physician (1857-1925). Scarce. Bay, Com, LOC, My.A, My.D, My.R

 

BIRKETT, Norman, Lord, ed - The New Newgate Calendar. Edited by Lord Birkett. (London: Folio Society) 265 pages hb, 1960. Law. Newgate. Britain. Caribbean area. A collection of case reports; trials of 18th century felons in Britain including some West Indians. By a British lawyer (1883-1962). LOC

 

BIRKETT, Theodore Sydney - Resume of Big Cricket in the West Indies and British Guiana Since the West Indies Tour of 1923 in England. (Bridgetown: Advocate Co) 61 pages pamph, 1927. Sport. Cricket. Caribbean area. Guyana. By a Barbadian cricketer and author (1918-) Scarce. Co.C, Com

 

BIRLA, SC, and CE MC INTOSH, ed – Proceedings of the Tenth West Indian Agricultural Economics . . . [See: “West Indian Agricultural Economics . . .”]

 

BIRMINGHAM-POKORNY, Elba D, ed - Denouncement and Reaffirmation of the Afro-Hispanic Identity in Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Works. (Miami: Ediciones Universal) 150 pages pb, 1993. Literary criticism. Carlos Guillermo Wilson. Cuba. By a US linguist; professor of Spanish at Southern Arkansas U. Web page. LOC

 

BIRNBAUM, Stephen, ed – The Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas 1981. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, The Get’em and Go Travel Guides) xii,676 pages 20 cm, ills, 1980. Travel. Descriptive. Caribbean area. Bermuda. Bahamas. A guidebook for tourists

 

Birnbaum's Bahamas, ['94]. (New York: HarperCollins) 208 pages pb, ills, 1993. Travel. Descriptive. Bahamas. A guidebook for tourists. Bow, LOC

 

Birnbaum's Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. (New York: HarperCollins) 208 pages pb, ills, 1995. Travel. Descriptive. Bahamas. Turks & Caicos Islands. A guidebook for tourists. Bow

 

Birnbaum's Bermuda, ['93]. (New York: HarperCollins) 224 pages pb, 1992; (ibidem) 176 pages pb, 1993; (ibidem) 176 pages pb, 1996. Travel. Descriptive. Bermuda. A guidebook for tourists. Bow, Whi

 

Birnbaum's Caribbean, ['94]. (New York: HarperCollins) 800 pages pb, ills, 1993; (ibidem) 856 pages, 1994; (ibidem) 896 pages pb, ills, 1996. Travel. Descriptive. Caribbean area. A guidebook for tourists. Be.A, Bow, LOC

 

Birnbaum's Guide to the Caribbean, Bermuda and the Bahamas. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Birnbaum's Travel Guides Series) 671 pages, ills, 1979; (ibidem) 692 pages, maps, biblio, 1981; (ibidem) 1985; (ibidem) 721 pages, ills, maps, 1986; (ibidem) 768 pages pb, 1990. Travel. Descriptive. Caribbean area. A guidebook for tourists. Continued from 1985 as "Birnbaum's Caribbean." Bow, Ing, LOC, Mol, My.D, My.R

 

BIRSE, Eric Leslie – [Scots agriculturalist (1922-?). BL.]

 

BIRSE, Eric Leslie, and JP WATSON - Report on a Reconnaissance Soil Survey of an Area of the North West District, British Guiana. (Georgetown: Argosy Co) 28 pages pamph, 1954. Agriculture. Soils. North West District. Guyana. An official government report. A soil survey. Scarce. Co.C, Com

 

BIRT, John – Official Responsibility Affirmed and Enforced, in a Letter to Sir George Grey . . . on the Administration of the Act for Abolition of Colonial Slavery. (London: J Hatchard & Son) 16 pages 8vo pamph, 1837. Colonial administration. Slavery. Abolition Act. George Grey. Caribbean area. BL

 

BISCOE, J Tyndale – [See: TYNDALE-BISCOE]

 

BISCOE, Robert Stafford - Development of Back Lands in Jamaica. (Kingston: IOJ) 14 pages pamph, 1922. Land use. Jamaica. Scarce. RES

 

BISCOE, Robert Stafford - Rural Jamaica, its needs and how to satisfy them. (Kingston: IOJ) 12 pages pamph, 1922. Politics. Rural development. Jamaica. Scarce. RES

 

BISCOE, Robert Stafford - [Jamaican land surveyor (1886-?). RES.]

 

BISHOP, Crawford Morrison – [US law professor (1885-?)]

 

BISHOP, Crawford Morrison, and Anyda M MARCHANT - A Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress) ix,276 pages hb, 1944. Law. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Haiti. A bibliography. Scarce. Bay, Gos, Hum, Lag, LOC, Tra

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Beat Back Destabilizers! National Broadcast. By Comrade Maurice Bishop. (sl [St Georges]) 13 pages pamph, 1979. Politics. Destabilizers. Grenada. A speech. New

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Facism: A Caribbean Reality? (San Fernando: OWTU, Lectures & Discussion Papers, No 5) 36 pages pamph, 1975. Politics. Facism. Grenada. A speech. New

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Fight Unemployment through Production: A Speech by Cde Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop to Conference on Unemployment, The Dome, Grand Anse, 28th June, 1982. (Surrey: Britain-Grenada Friendship Society. London: Liberation) 24 pages pamph, 1983. Politics. Economics. Unemployment. Grenada. A speech. New

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Forward Ever! Three Years of the Grenadian Revolution. (Sydney and New York: Pathfinder P) 287 pages, 1982. Politics. Revolution. Grenada. Gos, LOC

 

BISHOP, Maurice – In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches, 1979-1983 - A Memorial Volume. (London: Zed Books) xli,260 pages, 1984. Politics. Grenada. A collection of speeches. Edited by C Searle. Gos, LOC, Whi

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution 1979-1983. (New York: Pathfinder P) xlvii,352 pages hb, 18 b&w photos, 1983 1st ed; (ibidem) xlvii,352 pages pb, 18 b&w photos, 1983. Politics. Revolution. Grenada. A collection of speeches. Edited by Bruce Marcus and Michael Taber. Bow, Gos, LOC, New, Whi

 

BISHOP, Maurice – New Martyrs, New Heroes, New Patriots: National Broadcast. (St Georges: Gov’t Printer) 16 pages pamph, 1980. Politics. Martyrs. Heroes. Patriots. Grenada. A speech. New

 

BISHOP, Maurice – One Caribbean. (London: Britain-Grenada Friendship Society) 29 pages pamph, 1983. Politics. Grenada. A speech. LOC

 

BISHOP, Maurice – One Month After the People's Revolution. (Port-of-Spain: TIWU Printery) pamph, 1979. Politics. Revolution. Grenada. A speech

 

BISHOP, Maurice – Selected Speeches. (Habana: Casa de las Americas) 284 pages, [ca 1982]. Politics. Grenada. A collection of speeches. LOC

 

BISHOP, Maurice – [Grenadian lawyer and politician (1944-1983); assassinated PM of Grenada. Web page. See: B Marcus and M Taber; and M Parable; and "The Real Story . . ."]

 

BISHOP, Maurice, and Chris SEARLE - Grenada: Education is a Must. (London: Education Committee of the British-Grenadian Friendship Society) 48 pages 21 cm pamph, ills,[1981]. Politics. Education. Grenada. A speech. LOC

 

BISHOP, Myrtle – Industrial Development Policies and Strategies in CARICOM Countries and their Impact and Implications for Women. (Vienna: UNIDO) 23 pages pamph, 1984. Economics. Industrial development. Gender studies. Women. Caricom. Caribbean area. New

 

BISHOP, Myrtle et al - A Definitial Study of the Private Sector in the Guyanese Economy. (Georgetown: Investment Co) 1982. Economics. Business development. Private sector. Guyana

 

The Bishop of Jamaica, Showing the Means Furnished . . . [See: “Report from the Bishop of Jamaica . . .”]

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - The Bauxite Resources of British Guiana and their Development. (Georgetown: Daily Chronicle, British Guiana Geological Survey, Bulletin No 6) 123 pages, biblio, 1955. Geology. Economics. Mining. Bauxite. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. Bay, Co.C, Com, Jor, LOC

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - The Geology and Geography of the Towakaima Region, Upper Barama Valley, North West District, 1937-1938. (Georgetown: Geological Survey, Bulletin No 16) iv,28 pages 3to pamph, 1 map, 1941. Geology. Towakaima Region. Upper Barama Valley. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. BL

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - Memorandum on the Occurrence of Bauxite in British Guiana, Compiled . . . from Reports on the Examinations Carried out between 1917 and 1921, by EE Winter . . . and from other Sources. (Georgetown: British Guiana Geological Survey, Bulletin No 8) 66 pages 4to pamph, 1 map, 1938. Geology. Economics. Mining. Bauxite. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. BL

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - Preliminary Report on Quartzstone: Wiamu Area, Cuyuni River . . . 1936. (Georgetown: British Guiana Geological Survey, Bulletin No 5) 14 pages 4to pamph, maps, 1937. Geology. Mining. Quartzstone. Wiamu area. Cuyuni river. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. BL

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - Report on the Area between Quartzstone Head, Aremu Mine, and the Puruni River near Peters Mine . . . 1937. (Georgetown: Geological Society, Bulletin No 8) 20 pages 4to pamph, 1 map, 1938. Geology. Quartzstone Head. Puruni River. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. BL

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - Report on the Occurrence of Manganese Ore at Saxacalli, Lower Essequibo River. (Georgetown: Geological Survey, Bulletin No 6, Part 2) 4 pages 4to pamph, maps, 1937. Geology. Mining. Manganese. Saxacalli. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. BL

 

BISHOPP, Douglas Wallace - [British colonial geologist.]

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - Bridging Race and Class in Guyana. (Georgetown: PPP/Civic) 20 pages pamph, 1992. Politics. Sociology. Race relations. Social classes. Guyana

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - Challenge for the Caribbean. (sl [Georgetown]: Published by the Author) 29 pages pamph, 1984. Politics. Caribbean area. LOC

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - East Indian Immigrant Society in British Guiana. (Kingston: UWI) 1977; (Leeds: Peepal Tree) 1996. Immigration. East Indians. Guyana

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - History of Religions in the Caribbean. (Kingston: Kingston Publishers) 225 pages pb, ills, 1989. History. Church. Religion. Caribbean area. BL, Gos, LOC

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - A Short History of the Guyana Presbyterian Church. (Georgetown: Labour Advocate Printery) 91 pages, 1979. History. Church. Religion. Presbyterians. Guyana. BL, LOC

 

BISNAUTH, Dale A - [Guyanese author and politician; Minister of education in the Jagdeo administration.]

 

BISSAINTHE, Max - Dictionary of Haitian Bibliography. (Washington, DC: Scarecrow P) 1951; (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow P) 1973. History. Travel. Descriptive. Haiti. A bibliography. The 1973 issue is a supplement. By a Haitian librarian; director of the Bibliotheque National of Port-au-Prince; fired subsequent to the accession of President Duvalier, and later worked as a reference librarian at New York U.

 

[BISSET, Robert] - A Defence of the Slave Trade, on the Grounds of Humanity, Policy and Justice. (London: Printed by J Hales, Old Boswell Court: and sold by J Highley, Fleet-Street; and J Budd, Pall Mall) [4],90,[2] pages 24 cm 8vo pamph, 1804. Colonial administration. Slavery. Slave trade. Caribbean area. A pro-slavery tract. Claims it betters the conditions of the Africans. Exceptionally scarce. BL, NYH, Rag, RES

 

[BISSET, Robert] - Essays on the Negro Slave Trade. (sl, [London]: W M’Dowall) 27 pages 8vo pamph, [1805]. Colonial administration. Slavery. Slave trade. Caribbean area. A pro-slavery tract. Several arguments in favour of the trade. Exceptionally scarce. BL, Rag

 

[BISSET, Robert] - History of the Negro Slave Trade in its connection with the Commerce and Prosperity of the West Indies . . . (London) 2 vols, 8vo, 1805. Colonial administration. Slavery. Slave trade. Caribbean area. A pro-slavery tract. Provides considerable data on many of the pamphleteers. Very scarce. Cu.W, LOC, Rag, Sab 5646

 

BISSET, Robert - [British historian and writer (1759-1805); a rabid supporter of the slave trade. DNB.]

 

BLACHFORD, Michael – The West India Directory . . . [British marine publisher. See: JW Norie. The 1839 edition attributed to Blachford by Sabin.]

 

BLACK, Anna – Familiar Jamaican Birds. (Kingston: Jamaica Information Service) 31 pages 21 cm pamph, ills, 1991. Wildlife. Ornithology. Jamaica. Illustrations by Margaret Hodges. LOC

 

BLACK, Anna – Familiar Jamaican Birds, II. (Kingston: Jamaica Information Service) 31 pages pamph, ills, 1992. Wildlife. Ornithology. Jamaica. Vol 2 of the above work. Ban, LOC

 

BLACK, CDG, and BV BAILEY – Investigation of the Barbecue Copper Prospect. (Kingston: Geological Survey Dep’t, Economic Geology Report No 2) iii,11 pages pamph, ills, maps, 1968. Geology. Mining. Copper. Jamaica. An official government report. Com, LOC

 

BLACK, CDG, and GW GREEN, and PE NAWROCKI – Preliminary Investigation of the Castleton Copper Project. (Kingston: Geological Survey Dep’t, Economic Geology Report No 4) 26 pages pamph, 1972. Geology. Mining. Copper. Jamaica. An official government report. Com

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Capitals of Jamaica. (Kingston) 1952. History. Capitals. Jamaica. See also WA Roberts. Her, LOC

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - The History of Jamaica. (London: Collins Clear-Type P) 256 pages 8vo hb, plates, maps, 1958 1st ed; (ibidem) 256 pages, 1961 2nd ed; (ibidem) 256 pages, 1965 3rd ed; (ibidem) 256 pages hb, 5 ills, maps, 1968; (ibidem) 256 pages hb, plates, maps, 1969; (ibidem) 266 pages pb, plates, maps, 1976; (London: Longmans Group) 176 pages pb, ills, maps, 1983 rev ed; (ibidem) 176 pages, ills, maps, 1988 rep; (ibidem) 176 pages pb, ills, maps, 1991 rep. History. Education. Jamaica. A secondary school textbook. Various impressions in each edition. Bay, BL, Co.C, Com, Gos, Her, Ing, LOC, Whi

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - History of Montego Bay. (Montego Bay: Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce) 55 pages pamph, ills, 17 plates, biblio, 1984. History. Montego Bay. Jamaica. BL, LOC

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Jamaica Guide. (Kingston: Collins & Sangster) 128 pages, plates, ills, 6 maps, 1973. Travel. Descriptive. Jamaica. A guidebook for tourists. Ing, LOC

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Living Names in Jamaica's History. (Kingston: Jamaica Welfare, Caribbean Home Library, No 28) 24 pages 8vo pamph, plates, [1946]; (Kingston: Jamaica Information Service) 42 pages pamph, ills, 1988; (ibidem) 42 pages pamph, 1991. History. Geography. Jamaica. Ban, BL, LOC

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - A New History of Jamaica. (London: William Collins. Kingston: Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd) 160 pages 21x26 cm hb, many ills, maps, 1973; (Kingston: William Collins & Sangster's Book Stores) 160 pages, ills, 1975. History. Education. Jamaica. A secondary school textbook; a new edition of his "Story of Jamaica . . ." BL, Car, Com, Ing

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Our Archives: Six Broadcast Talks. (Kingston: Gov't Printer) 28 pages 24 cm pamph, plates, 1962. Archives. Jamaica. A collection of speeches. BL, Ing, LOC, Will

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Pirates of the West Indies. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP) 160 pages 23 cm hb, 20 ills, biblio, index, 1989; (ibidem) 160 pages 23 cm pb, 20 ills, biblio, index, 1989. Piracy. Caribbean area. BL, Bow, Gos, LOC, Whi

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Port Royal, A History and Guide. (Kingston: Bolivar P) 87 pages 20 cm, photos, 1970 1st ed; (Kingston: IOJ) 90 pages pb, ills, photos, 1 folding poster, 1 folding map, index, 1988 rev ed. Travel. Descriptive. Port Royal. Jamaica. A guidebook for tourists. Some local history. Ban, BL, Com, Ing, LOC, Will

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Report on the Archives of British Guiana. (Georgetown: Printed for the Gov’t of British Guiana by the ‘Daily Chronicle’) 23 pages folio pamph, 1955. Archives. Guyana. An official government report. BL, Co.C, Com, LOC

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Spanish Town, The Old Capital. (Glasgow: Printed by Robert MacLehose. Spanish Town: Parish Council of St Catherine) 63 pages 8vo pamph, photos, 1960 1st ed; (Spanish Town: Parish Council of St Catherine) 78 pages, 1974 2nd ed. History. Spanish Town. Jamaica. A concise account. BL, Co.C, Com, Ing, LOC, Will

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - The Story of Jamaica from Pre-history to the Present. (London: Collins) 256 pages 8vo hb, 25 ills, 2 maps, biblio, dj, 1965 rev ed. History. Jamaica. A revised edition of his "History of Jamaica." Bay, BL, Bo.C, Com, Ing, LOC, Will

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - Tales of Old Jamaica. (Kingston: Pioneer P) x,121 pages 12mo pb, plates, 1952 1st ed; (London: Collins) 128 pages 8vo hb, 10 ills, 1966; (ibidem) 127 pages hb, ills, dj, 1970; (ibidem) 127 pages hb, ills, dj, 1972; (ibidem) 127 pages hb, plates, dj, 1973; (Kingston: Collins Sangster) 127 pages, ills, 1979; (London: Longmans) 128 pages pb, ills, 1988. History. Jamaica. A collection of ten tales. Includes Annie Palmer, and Anne Bonney, and Mary Reed. BL, Co.C, Com, Her, Ing, LOC, Whi

 

BLACK, Clinton Vane de Brosse - [Jamaican historian and government archivist (1918-?). Her.]

 

BLACK, Donal James - Jamaica Triangle . . . [A novel, sometimes listed as non-fiction.]

 

BLACK, George - The Good Neighbour: How the United States Wrote the History of Central America and the Caribbean. (New York: Pantheon Books) 200 pages, 1988. International relations. Good neighbour policy. United States. Central America. Caribbean area. Gos

 

BLACK, Jan Knippers – The Dominican Republic: Politics and Development in an Unsovereign State. (Boston: Allen & Unwin. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall) 164 pages hb, 1986; (ibidem) 164 pages pb, 1986. Politics. International relations. United States. Dominican Republic. Bow, Gos, LOC

 

BLACK, Jan Knippers – [US travel book writer (1940-). LOC.]

 

BLACK, Jan Knippers et al – Area Handbook for Cuba. (Washington, DC: US Gov't Printing Office) 550 pages, biblio, 1976 2nd ed. Travel. Descriptive. Cuba. A guidebook for administrators and diplomats. For the first edition see: HI Blutstein. Chi, LOC, Stu

 

BLACK, Jan Knippers, and Howard I BLUTSTEIN, Kathryn Therese JOHNSTON, and David S MC MORRIS - Area Handbook for Trinidad and Tobago. (Washington, DC: Gov't Printer, The American U) xiv,304 pages hb, 1 map, biblio, 1976. Travel. Descriptive. Trinidad. Tobago. A guidebook for administrators and diplomats. A handbook of basic facts from a US perspective. Car, Ch.T, Gos, LOC

 

BLACK, Jeannette Dora, ed – The Blathwayt Atlas: A Collection of 48 Manuscript and Printed Maps of the 17th Century Relating to the British Overseas Empire in that Era: Brought together about 1683 for the Use of the Lords of Trade and Plantations by William Blathwayt. (Providence: Brown UP, Bicentennial Publications) 2 vols, 64 cm, 48 col and b&w maps, 1970-1975. Colonial administration. Cartography. William Blathwayt. British Empire. Caribbean area. Includes the WI. An atlas. Vol 1 consists of the maps and Vol 2 of bibliographical references. BL, Com

 

BLACK, M Lazarus – [See: LAZARUS-BLACK]

 

Black Regiment, Antigua. Copies of any Correspondence between the West India Merchants and the Colonial Office Respecting the Recruiting of the Black Regiment from the Creole Population of Antigua. (London: Commons Report) 3 pages folio, 1853. Colonial administration. Military. Militia. Black Regiments. Recruitment. Antigua. A parliamentary report. Very scarce

 

BLACKBEARD - [Pirate. See: E Teach]

 

BLACKBURN, Francis Henry Bernard - Manurial Trials with Food Crops. (Bridgetown: Dep't of Science & Agriculture) 13 pages pamph, 1945. Agriculture. Fertilizers. Food crops. Barbados. An official government report. Scarce. Bar

 

BLACKBURN, Francis Henry Bernard - Manurial Trials with Sugar Cane in Barbados. (Bridgetown: Dep't of Science & Agriculture) 1946. Agriculture. Sugar. Fertilizers. Barbados. An official government report. For Parts 2 and 3 see JBD Robinson. There were also published reports for 1949 and 1952. All issues scarce. Bar, Wilk

 

BLACKBURN, Kenneth – Lasting Legacy: A Story of British Colonialism. (London: Johnson Publications) xiv,206 pages 23 cm hb, ills, [4] pages of plates, 2 maps, biblio, index, 1976. History. Colonial administration. British Empire. Caribbean area. Passim WI. A paean to the benefits of British colonialism. Be.A, BL, LOC

 

BLACKBURN, Kenneth – The Romance of English Harbour. (London) 1951 1st ed; (ibidem) 32 pages pamph, 4 plates, 1954; (English Harbour: Friends of English Harbour) 36 pages pamph, 5 plates, 1959 3rd rev ed; (sl) 40 pages pamph, 1972 5th ed. Descriptive. Naval. Admiralty. Ports. Harbours. English Harbour. Antigua. 2000 copies of the 1st edition printed. Be.A

 

BLACKBURN, Kenneth – Sugar Cane. (London and New York: Longman, Tropical Agriculture Series) ix,414 pages, ills, 1984. Agriculture. Sugar. Caribbean area. Includes the WI. BL, LOC

 

BLACKBURN, Kenneth – [British colonial administrator (1920-1980); served as governor of the Leeward Islands, 1950-56, and later as managing director of Tate & Lyle’s Caroni Ltd in Trinidad.]

 

BLACKBURN, Robin – The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. (London and New York: Verso P) 602 pages hb, dj, 1997. History. Slavery. Caribbean area. A historical study of the effects of slavery both on the European powers and the colonies

 

BLACKBURN, Robin - The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. (London and New York: Verso P) 576 pages hb, dj, 1988. History. Slavery. Caribbean area. A history of the abolition movement in America and the WI. Bow, LOC, Stu

 

BLACKBURN, Robin - Slavery and Empire. (London: New Left Books) 1978. History. Slavery. Slave trade. British Empire. Caribbean area

 

BLACKETT, Harcourt, ed - Survivors of the Middle Passage: Affirmation and Change. (sl, [Bridgetown]: CCC]) 106 pages pb, 1993. Church. Religion. Caribbean area. A collection of conference papers. By a Barbadian RC priest. LOC

 

Blackie's Tropical Readers. (Glasgow: Blackie's) 2 vols, 1897. Education. Tropical readers. Caribbean area. BL, Cu.W

 

BLACKMAN, Courtney N - Balance of Payments Crisis in the Caribbean: Which Way Out? (Bridgetown: Central Bank of Barbados) 44 pages pamph, 1976; (Bridgetown: UWI/Modern Printing & Graphics) 44 pages pamph, graphics, [ca 1979]. Banking. Finance. Debt. Balance of payments. Caribbean area. New, W&D

 

BLACKMAN, Courtney N - A Heterodox Approach to the Adjustment Problem. (Mona: UWI, ISER/Central Bank of Barbados) 28 pages pamph, 2 b&w photos, 4 ills, 1986. Banking. Finance. Structural adjustment. Caribbean area. The 1st Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture. Ban

 

BLACKMAN, Courtney N - Managing Foreign Exchange Reserves in Small Developing Countries. (New York: Group of Thirty) 19 pages pamph, 1982. Banking. Finance. Foreign exchange. Caribbean area. LOC

 

BLACKMAN, Courtney N - Practice of Persuasion: Selected Speeches. (Bridgetown: Edar P) ix,177 pages pb, 1982. Banking. Finance. Barbados. A collection of speeches on development, banking, export enhancement, etc. Barbados. LOC

 

BLACKMAN, Courtney N - [Barbadian economist; governor of the Central Bank of Barbados; ambassador to the UN.]

 

BLACKMAN, Joseph Elliott - An Outline of the Geography of the West Indies. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) xii,110 pages 8vo hb, 1919. Geography. Caribbean area. BL, Co.C, Com

 

BLACKMAN, Francis - Dame Nita: Caribbean Woman, World Citizen. (Kingston: Ian Randle) xii,186 pages hb, photos, index, 1995; (ibidem) xii,186 pages pb, photos, index, 1996. Descriptive. Nita Barrow. Barbados. A biography. LOC

 

BLACKMAN, Francis - Methodism: 200 Years in Barbados. (Bridgetown: Caribbean Contact) 160 pages, ills, 1988. Church. Religion. Methodists. Barbados. Gos, LOC

 

BLACKMAN, Francis - Methodism: 200 Years in the British Virgin Islands. (Bridgetown: Methodist Church) 151 pages pb, ills, 1 map, 1989. Church. Religion. Methodists. Tortola. British Virgin Islands. Gos, Mol

 

BLACKMAN, Francis - National Heroine of Barbados: Sarah Ann Gill. (Bridgetown: Methodist Church) 27 pages pamph, ills, 1998. Descriptive. National heroes. Sarah Ann Gill. Barbados. A biography. LOC

 

BLACKMAN, Margot – Bajan Proverbs. (Montreal: By the Author, Cedar P) 18 pages pamph, ills, 1982. Folklore. Proverbs. Barbados. Pot

 

BLACKNER, Irwin R, ed - The Portable Hakluyt's Voyages. (New York: Viking P) 522 pages hb, 1965. Early voyages. Richard Hakluyt. Caribbean area

 

[BLACKWELL, Isaac] - A Description of the Province and Bay of Darien. Giving a Full Account of all its Situation, Inhabitants, Way and Manners of Living and Religion. . . By IB a Well Wisher to the Company who Lived There Seventeen Years. (Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson) 16 pages 4to pamph, 1699. International relations. Abortive colonies. Scots colonies. Darien. Belize. The failed Scots colony at Darien. Very scarce. BL, LOC, Sab 78214

 

BLAFF, CJ - Memoir of Bishop Rawle . . . [A mis-listing for the work by G Mather and CJ Blagg]

 

BLAICH, Oswald P, ed - Agriculture in British Guiana: Census 1952. (Georgetown: Lithographic Co for the Dep't of Agriculture, Vol 1 No 1) 99 pages, [ca 1954]; (Georgetown: Dep’t of Agriculture, Census 1953, Published by Authority of the Director of Agriculture, Vol 1 No 2) 20 pages pamph, 1954; (Georgetown: Dep’t of Agriculture, Vol 1 No 3) 23 pages pamph, 1956. Agriculture. Statistics. Guyana. A series of official government agricultural reports. Com, W&D

 

BLAICH, Oswald P, and TP DETTERING - Management of the Dairy-Beef Enterprise: Fairfield-Abary District, 1952-1953. (Georgetown: Dep't of Agriculture) 24 pages pamph, 1956. Agriculture. Livestock. Dairy products. Fairfield-Abary District. Guyana. An official government report. Scarce. Co.C, Com, W&D

 

BLAIR, Clay - Diving For Pleasure and Treasure. (Cleveland: World Publishing Co) 348 pages, ills, 1960 1st ed; (London: Arthur Barker) 240 pages hb, many photos, dj, 1961. Travel. Descriptive. Treasure. Caribbean area. By a US adventurer (1925-). LOC

 

BLAIR, Daniel – Report of the Recent Yellow Fever Epidemic in British Guiana. (London: J Churchill) 91,1,11 pages, 1856. Health. Yellow fever. Guyana. Very scarce. LOC

 

BLAIR, Daniel – Second Report on Yellow Fever. [London?] 1857. Health. Yellow fever. Guyana. Very scarce. Cu.W

 

BLAIR, Daniel – Some Account of the last Yellow Fever Epidemic of British Guiana. (London: Longmans & Co) xv,161 pages 8vo, 10 plates, 1850 1st ed; (ibidem) xv,230 pages 8vo, 10 plates, 1852 3rd ed. Health. Yellow fever. Guyana. 1st edition very scarce; other editions scarce. BL, Sab 5737

 

BLAIR, Patricia Wohlgemuth – The Ministate Dilemma. (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Occasional Paper No 6) 98 pages, 1967. Politics. Mini-states. Caribbean area. Com

 

BLAISE, Jean R - Preliminary Investigation of the Mavis Bank Copper Prospect. (Kingston: Ministry of Mining & Natural Resources) 46 pages pamph, ills, maps, 6 folding maps, 1976. Economics. Mining. Copper. Jamaica. An official government report. Car, LOC

 

BLAIZE, Herbert Augustus - Grenada Budget Speech. (St Georges: Gov't Printer) 1987. Politics. Budgets. Grenada. A speech. By the PM of Grenada (1918-1989). Web page.]

 

BLAKE, Clagette – Charles Eliot RN, 1801-1875: A Servant of Britain Overseas. (London: Cleaver-Hume P Ltd) 130 pages, 1960. Descriptive. Colonial administration. Charles Eliot. Guyana. A biography. Com

 

BLAKE, Evon - The Best of Evon Blake. (Kingston: Printed by Lithographic Printers for Barbara Blake) 104 pages, 1967. Descriptive. Jamaica. A pictorial book. LOC, Will

 

BLAKE, Evon - [Jamaican journalist, author and photographer (1907-?)]

 

BLAKE, Evon, ed - Beautiful Jamaica. (Port Antonio: Vista Publications) 176 pages hb, many col and b&w photos, 1970 1st ed; (ibidem) 176 large pages hb, photos, dj, 1971 2nd ed; (ibidem) 206 pages, photos, 1974 3rd ed; (ibidem) 207 pages, photos, 1978 4th ed; (Kingston: Kingston Publishers) 207 pages, photos, 1980; (ibidem) 232 large pages hb, many col photos, 1983; (ibidem) 230 large pages hb, photos, 1983 5th ed; (ibidem) 220 pages, photos, 1991 6th ed. Descriptive. Jamaica. A pictorial book. Ban, Com, Gos, Ing, LOC, Will

 

BLAKE, Judith – Family Instability and Reproductive Behaviour in Jamaica: Current Research in Human Fertility. (New York: Millbank Memorial Fund) 17 pages pamph, 1955. Sociology. Fertility. Family planning. Jamaica. Scarce. Com

 

BLAKE, Judith, and Jospeh Mayone STYCOS, and Kingsley DAVIS - Family Structure in Jamaica: The Social Context of Reproduction. (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe) x,262 pages 8vo, biblio, [1961] 1st ed; (Westport, CT: Greenwood P) 262 pages hb, biblio, 1980 rep. Sociology. Demography. Families. Fertility. Family planning. Jamaica. Bay, BL, Bob, Bow, Car, Co.C, Com, Gos, Ing, LOC, New, W&D, Whi, Will

 

BLAKE, William – [British poet and engraver (1757-1827). See: JG Stedman. LOC.]

 

BLAKE, William O - History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece and Rome, the Africa Slave Trade and the Political History of Slavery in the United States. Compiled from Authentic Sources by WO Blake. (Columbus, OH: J&H Miller) 866 pages 8vo, plates, 1858 1st ed; (ibidem) 832 pages 8vo, 1859; (ibidem) 866 pages 8vo, 2 plates, 1861; (New York: Haskell House) 2 vols, 832 pages 24 cm hb, plates, 1969 facs ed. History. Slavery. Slave trade. Caribbean area. Chapter XI deals with the WI, otherwise mainly concerns the USA. 1st and 2nd editions scarce. BL, Bow, LOC, Sab 5800

 

BLAKESLEE, George Hubbard, ed – Mexico and the Caribbean: University Addresses. (New York: GE Stechert & Co) x,363 pages 8vo, 1920. International relations. Education. Mexico. Caribbean area. A collection of speeches. BL, Tra

 

BLAKSLEY, John - Travels, Trips and Trots: On and Off Duty from the Tropics to the Arctic Circle. (London: JJ Keliker & Co) ix,210 pages 8vo, 1903; (ibidem) ix,210 pages 8vo, [1904] 2nd ed. Travel. Descriptive. Caribbean area. A travelogue. 1st edition scarce. BL, Cu.W

 

BLANCHARD, Melinda, and Robert BLANCHARD – A Trip to the Beach. (New York: Clarkson Potter Publications) viii,296 pages, maps, [ca 2000]. Descriptive. Restaurants. Tourism. Anguilla. An autobiography. LOC

 

BLANCHARD, Paul – [See: BLANSHARD]

 

BLANCHARD, Peter – [Canadian lawyer (1946-)]

 

BLANCHARD, Peter, and Peter LANDSTREET, ed - Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' P) viii,431 pages, 1989. Law. Human rights. Latin America. Caribbean area. Gos, LOC

 

BLANCO, Ana Teresa - Nutrition Studies in Puerto Rico. (Río Piedras) viii,96 pages, 1946. Food. Nutrition. Puerto Rico. Bay, LOC

 

BLANCO, Guzman Antonio – [President of Venezuela (1829-1899). See: CC Goslinga]

 

BLANCO, Juan Antonio – [See: M Benjamin]

 

[BLANCO, Juan Antonio, ed] - Cuban Revolution into the 1990s: Cuban Perspectives. (Boulder, CO: Westview P, Centro de Estudios Sobre America, LA Perspectives Series) 228 pages hb, figs, tables, 1992; (ibidem) 228 pages pb, figs, tables, 1992. Politics. Cuba. Gos, LOC, Whi

 

BLANCO, P Gonsales – [See: GONSALES-BLANCO]

 

BLAND, Anthony – A Degree of Commitment: Co-habitation and the Law. (Cave Hill: UWI, Faculty of Law) 39,10 pages, 1985. Law. Families. Co-habitation. Caribbean area. New

 

BLAND, Anthony – From Wilderness to Plantation: Charitable Trusts in Barbados. (Cave Hill: UWI, Faculty of Law) 39 pages, 1981. Law. Charitable trusts. Education. Barbados. An undergraduate textbook. New

 

BLAND, Anthony – How Constructive is the Trust? The Use of the Trust Concept in Relation to Property Rights of De Facto Spouses: A Comparative Study. (Cave Hill: UWI, Faculty of Law) 82 pages, 1977. Law. Trusts. Families. Education. Caribbean area. An undergraduate textbook. New

 

BLAND, Anthony – The Untrustworthy Trust. (Cave Hil: UWI, Faculty of Law) 40 pages, 1986. Law. Trusts. Families. Education. Caribbean area. An undergraduate textbook. New

 

BLAND, Thomas – [US biologist (1809-1885)]

 

BLAND, Thomas, and JC COOPER - On North American Helicidae and on the Geographical Distribution of West-India Land-shells. (New York: Lyceum of Natural History) 23 pages 8vo pamph, col plate, 1862. Wildlife. Molluscs. Land shells. North America. Caribbean area. Sab 5869

 

BLAND, [Thomas], and [?] HAINES - On New Terrestrial Mollusks and Shells from the West Indies and Siam. (New York: Lyceum of Natural History) 8 pages 8vo pamph, col plate, 1855. Wildlife. Molluscs. Land shells. Caribbean area. Siam. Very scarce. Sab 5870

 

BLANDON, A et al - Abary Water Control Project, Guyana: Project Report. (Washington, DC: IADB) 1977. Public water supply. Abary. Guyana. A technical assistance report. Car

 

[BLANE, Gilbert] - Account of the Battle between the British and French Fleets in the West Indies on the Twelfth of April 1782, in a Letter to Lord Dalrymple, British Minister at the Court at Warsaw. (sl, [London]) 20 pages 8vo pamph, [ca 1782]. Naval. Admiralty. Lord Dalrymple. Anglo-French War, 1778-1783. Caribbean area. An account of the “Battle of the Saints” between Rodney and de Grasse. Exceptionally scarce. BL, Cu.W, LOC, My.R, Rag

 

BLANE, Gilbert - The Battle of Dominica, 1782. A Narrative of Facts Connected with the Manoeuvre of Breaking the Enemy Line on the 12th of April. (London: Samuel Bently) 16 pages pamph, 1830. Naval. Admiralty. Anglo-French War, 1778-1783. Battle of the Saints, 1782. Caribbean area. The The breaking of the line controversy. Exceptionally scarce. My.R

 

[BLANE, Gilbert] - A Short Account of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen. (sl) ii,20 pages 4to pamph, [ca 1780]; (sl [London]: sn) 67 pages 8vo pamph, [ca 1781]. Health. Scurvy. Naval. Admiralty. Seamen. Caribbean area. Both issues exceptionally scarce. BL, Sab 5871

 

BLANE, Gilbert - [British physician (1749-1834); private physician to Lord Rodney, created a baron in 1812. DNB.]

 

BLANEY, Henry Robertson - The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Columbia, Costa Rica, Spanish Honduras, Belize, and the Spanish Main via Boston and New Orleans. (Boston: Lee & Shepard) viii,116 pages hb, 30 col plates, 1900. Travel. Descriptive. Central America. Belize. A travelogue; published for the United Fruit Co, with attractive coloured paintings by the author. Scarce. Cu.W, LOC

 

BLANKENSHIP, Jay R - The Wildlife of Montserrat: Including an Annotated Bird List for the Island. (Plymouth: Montserrat National Trust) 113 pages pb, ills, 1990. Wildlife. Ornithology. Montserrat. By a US Peace Corps worker. LOC

 

BLANSHARD, Paul - Democracy and Empire in the Caribbean: A Contemporary Review. (New York: Macmillan) xi,379 pages hb, 1 map on endpapers, biblio, dj, 1947 1st ed; (ibidem) xi,379 pages hb, 1 map, biblio, 1952. Politics. Democracy. British Empire. Caribbean area. An analysis of social and political problems in each of the territories during the years 1942-46. ‘The author’s definition of democracy is marked more by enthusiasm than by clarity, and the book occasionally descends to sentimental journalism.’ By a former official of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission during that period. Bar, Bay, BL, Bro, Co.C, Com, Gos, Gri, LOC, My.R, Tra, Viv

 

Blas Roca [pseud] – [Pseudonym of F Calderio]

 

BLASIER, Stewart Cole – The Hovering Giant: US Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America. (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P) 315 pages, 1976. International relations. United States. Latin America. Cuba. Chi

 

BLASIER, Stewart Cole – [US commentator (1925-?). LOC.]

 

BLASIER, Stewart Cole, and Carmelo MESA-LAGA, ed - Cuba in the World. (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P) vii,352 pages 24 cm pb, [ca 1979]. International relations. Cuba. A collection of essays on Cuban foreign policy. Gos, LOC, Stu, Whi

 

BLAT GIMENO, Jose, ed - Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Trends and Prospects, 1970-2000. Regional Conference of Ministers of Education and Those Responsible for Economic Planning of Member States in Latin America and The Caribbean. (Paris: UNESCO) 190 pages, 1983. Education. Latin America. Caribbean area. A collection of conference papers. Gos, LOC

 

BLATHWAYT, William – The Blathwayt Atlas . . . [See: JD Black]

 

BLAUCH, Lloyd E, and Charles Frederick REID – Education in the Territories and Outlying Possessions of the United States. (Washington, DC: Gov’t Printer) xv,243 pages 23 cm, maps, 1939. Colonial administration. Education. Puerto Rico. St Croix. St Thomas. United States Virgin Islands. An official government report. For a later edition see, CF Reid. LOC

 

BLAUT, James M, and Francis X MARK, and Arthur E DAMMANN – Report to the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands on the Reconstruction of the Agricultural Economy of St Croix. (Charlotte Amalie: sn) 16 pages pamph, 1965. Colonial administration. Agriculture. Small farming. Economics. St Croix. United States Virgin Islands. An official government report. Com

 

BLEACKLEY, D - The Geology of the Superficial Deposits and Coastal Sediments of British Guiana. (Georgetown: Daily Chronicle, British Guiana Geological Survey, Bulletin No 30) 1956. Geology. Sediments. Coastal zones. Guyana. An official government report. See also, “Geology of the Superficial and Coastal Deposits . . .” Scarce. Co.C, Com

 

BLEAKLEY, David – Bauxites and Laterites of British Guiana. (Georgetown: Geological Survey, Bulletin No 34) 156 pages 8vo, 1964. Geology. Mining. Bauxite. Laterite. Guyana. An official government report. BL

 

BLEBY, Francis – [A mis-citation by Cu.W for Henry Bleby.]

 

BLEBY, Henry – Capture of the Pirates and other Stories of the Western Seas. (London: Wesleyan Conference) 298 pages 8vo, [1881]. Piracy. Caribbean area. BL, Cu.W

 

BLEBY, Henry – Death Struggles of Slavery: Being a Narrative of Facts and Incidents which occurred in a British Colony, during the Two Years immediately preceding Negro Emancipation. (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co) iv,304 pages 12mo hb, 1853 1st ed; (London) viii,332 pages hb, plates, 1863 2nd ed; (London: Printed by William Nichols) viii,332 pages hb, 4 plates, 1868 3rd ed; (Coconut Grove, FL: Dewar's Limited Editions) 1973 facs ed. Slavery. Church. Religion. Baptists. Jamaica. A detailed story of the planter resistance to emancipation in Jamaica and a spirited defence of the role of the Baptist ministers during this period, particularly at the time of the Christmas Rebellion of 1831. Illustrated by sepia woodblock plates. All editions scarce. BL, Cu.J, Gri, Rag, RES, Sab 5888

 

BLEBY, Henry – Female Heroism; and Tales of the Western World. (London: Wesleyan Conference) 119 pages 16mo, [1881]. History. Caribbean area. Includes stories about the WI. BL, Cu.W

 

BLEBY, Henry – The Reign of Terror: A Narrative of Facts Concerning Ex-Governor Eyre, George William Gordon, and the Jamaica Atrocities. (London) 124 pages, 1868. Colonial administration. Public order. Morant Bay Rebellion, 1865. John Edward Eyre. George William Gordon. Jamaica. Scarce. Cu.J, RES

 

BLEBY, Henry – A Missionary Father’s Tales. (London: Wesleyan Mission House, Third or Ocean Series) 298 pages, plates, 1979. Descriptive. Church. Religion. Methodists. Caribbean area. Tales of the WI, including St Eustatius, Eleuthera, Antigua

 

BLEBY, Henry – Romance without Fiction: or Sketches from the Portfolio of an Old Missionary . . . (New York: Hunt & Eaton. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe) 582 pages 8vo, [1874]; (London) 1887 2nd ed. Church. Religion. Methodists. Caribbean area. Both issues scarce. BL, Cu.W, LOC

 

BLEBY, Henry – Scenes in the Caribbean Sea: Being Sketches from a Missionary's Notebook. (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co) iv,210 pages 18mo, ills, 1854. Church. Religion. Methodists. Slavery. Christmas Rebellion, 1831. Jamaica. BL, Cu.W, Rag, RES, Sab 5890

 

BLEBY, Henry – Speech of Rev Henry Bleby, Missionary from Barbadoes, on the Results of Emancipation in the British WI Colonies, Delivered at the Celebration of the Massachusetts' Anti-Slavery Society, Held at Island Grove, Abington, July 31st 1858. (Boston: RF Walcutt) 36 pages 16 cm 18mo pamph, 1858. Church. Religion. Methodists. Slavery. Caribbean area. Describes the Christmas Rebellion of 1831 to which he was an eyewitness. Insists that emancipation has been successful. Scarce. Sab 5891

 

BLEBY, Henry – Stories of the Western Seas . . . [See above, "Capture of the Pirates . . ."]

 

BLEBY, Henry – [British Methodist missionary (1809-1882); served 17 years in Jamaica, persecuted after the Christmas Rebellion of 1831. LOC.]

 

[BLENMAN, Jonathan] - Remarks on Several Acts of Parliament Relating More Especially to the Colonies Abroad; as also on Diverse Acts of Assembly There . . . wherein is Likewise Contain'd a Discourse Concerning the 4 1/2 per cent Duty Paid in Barbados and the Leeward Islands. (London: T Cooper) vii,125 pages 8vo, 1742 1st ed; (ibidem) 125 pages 23 cm 8vo, 1742 2nd ed; (New York: Arno P, Research Library of Colonial America) vii,125 pages, 1972 rep. Colonial administration. Law. Economics. Trade. Taxation. Barbados. Caribbean area. Discusses a wide variety of topics. The editor’s preface is signed “TM.” Both issues very scarce. BL, Han, LOC, Sab 6012

 

BLENMAN, Jonathan - Remarks on Zenger’s Tryal, Taken out of the Barbados Gazettes: For the Benefit of the Students in Law and others in North America. (New York: Reprinted H Caine) 60 pages pamph, 1770. Law. Seditious libel. Education. John Peter Zenger. Barbados. A case report. Not directly related to the WI. Exceptionally scarce. LOC

 

BLENMAN, Jonathan - [Barbadian barrister (fl 1740-1742); served as A-G for 35 years. See: T Baxter]

 

BLENMAN, William - The case of Jonathan Blenman, Esq, Attorney-General of Barbadoes, etc. Humbly submitted by his son, William Blenman. (London) 8 pages pamph, 1761. Colonial administration. Jonathan Blenman. Barbados. Defends him from charges by John Moore, the British naval commander of Barbados and the Leeward Islands, involving trade with neighbouring islands. Rare. Ha.S

 

Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord. (Merida: FH Photo) 28 pages pamph, many col photos, 1983. Church. Religion. Roman Catholics. Belize. A pictorial work; commemorates the visit of Pope John Paul II to Belize in 1983; besides the Pope’s message consists entirely of photos. Wri

 

BLICKE, Charles, ed – An Essay on the Bilious or Yellow Fever of Jamaica: Collected from the Manuscript of a Late Surgeon. (London: T Becket & Co; E&C Dilly) vii,71 pages 8vo pamph, 1772. Health. Yellow fever. Jamaica. Exceptionally scarce. BL

 

BLIGH, William - A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board his Britannic Majesty's Ship Bounty . . . (London: G Nichol) 88 pages 4to, maps, 1790 1st ed; (Philadelphia) 1790; (Dublin: L White) vii,144 pages 8vo, 1790. Naval. Admiralty. Mutinies. HMS Bounty. Agriculture. Breadfruit. Caribbean area. The first attempt to bring the plant to the WI, but otherwise no connection with the WI. Very scarce. LOC, Sab 5908a

 

BLIGH, William - Voyage of the Bounty. (London) [nd]. Naval. Admiralty. Mutinies. HMS Bounty. Agriculture. Breadfruit. Caribbean area. Contains his 1790 "A Narrative of the Mutiny . . ." and his 1792 "A Voyage to the South Sea . . ."

 

BLIGH, William - A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Breadfruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship Bounty . . . Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the said Ship . . . (London: George Nichol) [10],264 pages 4to, 8 plates, portrait, 1792 1st ed; (Dublin) 8vo, 1792. Naval. Admiralty. Agriculture. Breadfruit. Caribbean area. The official account of the Bounty expedition published with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and based largely on Bligh’s journal. Both editions scarce. LOC, Sab 5910

 

BLIGH, William - [British admiral (1754-1817); victim of the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1787; brought breadfruit to the WI in 1791; forcibly deposed in 1808 while governor of New South Wales. See: I Lee; and D Powell. DNB, LOC.]

 

BLIGHT, James G - The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield) xviii,199 pages pb, [ca 1990]; (Lanham, MD: Littlefield Adams Quality Paperbacks) 199 pages pb, 1992. International relations. Missile Crisis. United States. Soviet Union. Cuba. Bow, Gos, LOC, Stu

 

BLIGHT, James G - [US political scientist; professor of psychology and history at Grand Valley State U; professor of international relations at Brown U. Web page.]

 

BLIGHT, James G et al - Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. (New York: Pantheon) 509 pages, 1993. International relations. Missile Crisis. Fidel Castro. United States. Soviet Union. Cuba. Bow, LOC, Stu

 

BLIGHT, James G, and David A WELCH - On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Re-examine the Cuban Missile Crisis. (New York: Hill & Wang. Toronto: Collins) 400 pages hb, 1989 1st ed; (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 400 pages pb, 1990. International relations. Missile Crisis. Soviet Union. United States. Cuba. Bow, Gos, LOC, Stu

 

BLISS, Brian Henry, ed - Statute Law of the Bahama Islands, 1799-1957. (Toronto: Garden City Press Co-op Ltd) 6 vols, 1957. Law. Statutes. Bahamas. A collection of Acts and Ordinances. Replaced by R Hone. Scarce. Bay, LOC, New, Pat

 

BLISS, Henry - The Colonial System: Statistics of the Trade, Industry and Resources of Canada, and the Other Plantations in British America. (London) 169 pages 8vo, 1833; (ibidem) v,170 pages 8vo, 1833 2nd ed. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Blockades. Navigation Acts. Canada. Caribbean area. The colonial carrying trade and the blockade of US shipping; urges the exclusion of US ships from the WI trade. 1st edition very scarce; 2nd edition scarce. BL, Rag, RES, Sab 5927

 

BLISS, Henry - On Colonial Intercourse; with an Appendix, containing a Memorial to the Right Honourable the Board of Trade against opening the West Indies to Ships of the United States . . . (London) 111 pages 8vo, 1826 1st ed; (ibidem) iii,iv,23 pages 8vo pamph 1830. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Navigation Acts. Caribbean area. The colonial carrying trade and the blockade of US shipping; opposes admitting US ships to trade with the WI. 1st edition very scarce; 2nd edition scarce. LOC, Rag, RES, Sab 5926

 

BLISS, Henry - [British historian (1797?-1873). LOC.]

 

BLISS, Henry Edward Ernest Victor, Baron – [British philanthropist (1869-1926); left most of his fortune in trust for BH. See: LH Bradley]

 

BLISS, Robert Woods – Indigenous Art of the Americas. Collection of RW Bliss. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art) 159 pages, 1947. Descriptive. Visual arts. America. Caribbean area. Includes the WI. Lag

 

BLIZZARD, Flora Helena - West Indians in Canada: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. (Guelph: U of Guelph, The Library, Bibliography Series, No 1) 41 pages pamph, 1970. Sociology. Descriptive. Migration. Canada. Caribbean area. A bibliography. Bra, Jor, LOC

 

BLOCH, Peter - La-Le-Lo-Lai: Puerto Rican Music and its Performers. (New York: Plus Ultra Educational Publishers) 197 pages, biblio, 1973. Music. Puerto Rico. Collective biography. Sketches of various musicians. Cev, Gos, LOC

 

BLOCH, Peter - Painting and Sculpture of the Puerto Ricans. (New York: Plus Ultra Educational Publishers) 259 pages, b&w ills, biblio, 1978. Descriptive. Visual arts. Painting. Sculpture. Puerto Rico. The only available survey in English of PR art. Cev, Gos, LOC

 

BLOCK, Alan A - Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers) 319 pages, 1991. Law. Crime. Bahamas. By a US criminologist; professor at Pennsylvania State U. Gos, LOC

 

BLOFELD, Henry – Cricket in Three Moods. (London: Hodder & Stoughton) 192 pages, 1970. Sport. Cricket. Caribbean area. Com

 

BLOM-COOPER, Louis Jacques - Guns for Antigua: Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Shipment of Arms from Israel to Antigua and Transhipment on 24 April 1989 en Route to Columbia. (London: Duckworth) 240 pages pb, 1990. Law. Crime. Politics. Antigua & Barbuda. An official government report; the result of an enquiry into Antigua's role in gun-running for the Contras. By a British barrister, author and commissioner of various inquiries (1926-). Web page. Be.A, LOC

 

BLOME, Richard, ed - A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are related, viz, Barbadoes, Barbada, St Christophers, Nievis, or Nevis, Antego, St Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-found-land. Taken from the notes of Sir Thomas Linch, Knight, Governour of Jamaica; and other experienced persons in the said places; illustrated with maps. Published by RB. (London: Printed by T Milbourn, and sold by I Williams Junior) 192 pages 8vo, 3 maps, 1672 1st ed. Descriptive. Colonial administration. Thomas Lynch. Jamaica. Barbados. St Kitts. Nevis. Antigua. An important early work with a good section on Jamaica and a reasonable section on Barbados but only one or two pages on most of the other islands. Written from the notes of Thomas Lynch. The maps are of Carolina and Virginia. A rare early work. For the 2nd edition see below. Bay, Cu.J, Gos, Han, Ing, LOC, My.A, My.R, RES, Sab 5966, 5967

 

BLOME, Richard, ed - A Description of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are related, viz, Barbadoes, St Christophers, Nieves, or Mevis, Antego, St Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbados, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New-Foundland. Published by Richard Blome, together with the Present State of Algiers. (London: Printed by JB for Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey) vi,88,17 pages 8vo, 1 portrait, 4 maps, 1678 2nd ed. Descriptive. Colonial administration. Jamaica. Barbados. St Kitts. Nevis. Antigua. The title of the 2nd edition of the above work. Exceptionally scarce. BL

 

[BLOME, Richard, ed] - The Present State Of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, St Christophers, Mevis, Antego . . . (London: Printed by H Clark, for Dorman Newman) 262 pages 8vo, 1 portrait, 1 plate, 7 maps, 1687. Descriptive. Colonial administration. Jamaica. Barbados. St Kitts. Nevis. Antigua. Essentially the same as his "A Description of the Island of Jamaica . . ." Exceptionally scarce. Cu.J, Han, LOC, My.A, Sab 5972

 

BLOME, Richard, ed - [London publisher and compiler (?-1705). DNB.]

 

BLOMMESTEIN, E - Tourism and Environment in Caribbean Development: An overview of the Eastern Caribbean. (Port-of-Spain: ECLAC) 1985. Environment. Tourism. Caribbean area. A technical assistance report

 

BLOOD, Hilary - Report of the Constitutional Commissioner. (Belize City) 44 pages pamph, 1959. Law. Constitutional. Belize. An official government report. By a British lawyer (1893-). Scarce. LOC, Pat

 

BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Irving - Central Banking Arrangements for the West Indian Federation. (Mona: UWI, ISER, Studies in Federal Economics, No 2) 36 pages pamph, [ca 1961]. Banking. Finance. Central banks. Integration. BWI Federation. Caribbean area. Bay, Co.C, Com, LOC, W&D

 

BLOOMFIELD, CA - Sugar in Jamaica. (Monymusk: West Indies Sugar Co Ltd Printery) 34 pages pamph, [ca 1966]. Agriculture. Sugar. Foreign multinational corporations. Tate & Lyle. Jamaica. Will

 

BLOOMFIELD, Dorothy, and James R BOURNE – Thirty Years of Change in Puerto Rico: A Case Study of Ten Selected Rural Areas. (New York: Praeger) 1966. Descriptive. Rural development. Puerto Rico. Assesses the changes that have taken place in 10 rural communities as a result of programs planned and executed by the government. Cor

 

BLOOMFIELD, JH - A Cuban Expedition. (London: Downey & Co) xi,296 pages 8vo, 1896. History. Cuban War for Independence, 1895-1898. Cuba. Scarce. BL, LOC

 

BLOOMFIELD, Louis Mortimer - The British Honduras-Guatemala Dispute. (Toronto: Carswell Co) 233 pages 23 cm hb, 1 map, biblio, 1953. International relations. Border disputes. Guatemala. Belize. A useful historical and legal account that questions the Guatemalan claim. Bay, BL, Co.C, Com, Hum, LOC, Tra, Woo

 

BLOOMFIELD, Richard Joseph, ed - Puerto Rico: The Search for a National Policy. (Boulder, CO: Westview P) 192 pages, 1985. Economics. Development planning. Puerto Rico. By a US diplomat (1927-?); ambassador to Ecuador and Portugal, 1976-82. Gos, LOC

 

BLOOMFIELD, Valerie - Commonwealth Elections, 1945-1970: A Bibliography. (London: Mansell Information Publishing) xvi,306 pages, index, 1976; (Westport, CT: Greenwood P) xvi,306 pages, 1976. Politics. Elections. Commonwealth. Caribbean area. Includes the WI. A bibliography. BL, Gos, LOC

 

Bloudy newes from the Barbadoes, being a true relation of a great and terrible fight between the Parliament's Navie, Commanded by Sir George Ayscue and the King of Scot's Forces under the . . . Conduct and Command of the Lord Willoughby. (London: G Horton) 8 pages 4to pamph, 1652. Colonial administration. British Civil War. Oliver Cromwell. George Ayscue. Lord Willoughby. Barbados. Only a half page is concerned with the WI. Rare. BL, Cu.W, Han, Sab 5997

 

BLOUNT, Steve, and Lisa WALKER - Bahamas Diving and Snorkeling Guide. (New York: Pisces Book Co) 64 pages, col ills, [ca 1985]; (Houston: Pisces Books, Gulf Publishing) pb, 1990; (ibidem) 80 pages pb, 57 col ills, 2 maps, 1991 2nd rev ed. Travel. Descriptive. Bahamas. A guidebook for divers. Bow, LOC

 

BLOW, Michael - Ship to Remember: The Maine and the Spanish-American War. (New York: William Morrow) 496 pages, ills, maps, 1992. International relations. Spanish-American War. USS Maine. Cuba. LOC

 

The Blue Books. (London: The Jamaica Committee. Jamaica Papers, No 2) 22 cm, [ca 1866]. Colonial administration. Public order. Morant Bay Rebellion, 1865. Jamaica. Scarce. BL

 

BLUME, Helmut - The Caribbean Islands. (London: Longmans) 464 pages hb, 89 maps, biblio, 1968; (ibidem) 464 pages, maps, biblio, 1974; (ibidem) 1976. Geography. Caribbean area. A thorough survey of the entire region. For long the standard work on the geography of the WI. Translated from the German by Johannes Maczewski and Ann Norton. By a German geographer (1920-?). Be.A, Ch.H, Ch.T, Com, Gos, Ing, Jor, LOC, My.R, Pot, Stu

 

BLUSTAIN, Harvey S - Resource Management and Agricultural Development in Jamaica: Lessons for a Participatory Approach. (New York: Cornell UP) 151 pages pb, 1982. Agriculture. Development planning. Jamaica. Bow

 

BLUSTAIN, Harvey S, and Elsie LE FRANC, ed - Strategies for Organization of Small Farm Agriculture in Jamaica. (New York: Cornell UP. Mona: UWI, ISER) 217 pages pb, charts, tables, 1965; (ibidem) 217 pages pb, 1981; (ibidem) 200 pages pb, 1982; (ibidem) 223 pages pb, 1987. Agriculture. Small farming. Jamaica. Ban, Bow, LOC

 

BLUTSTEIN, Howard I et al - Area Handbook for Cuba. (Washington, DC: American U, Foreign Area Studies, US Superintendent of Documents, Gov't Printing Office) 505 pages hb, tables, 1 folding map, biblio, dj, 1971. Travel. Descriptive. Cuba. A guidebook for administrators and diplomats. Updated in 1985 by JD Rudolph, and in 1976 by JK Black. Chi Gos, LOC

 

BLUTSTEIN, Howard I, and JK BLACK, and KT JOHNSTON, and DS MC MORRIS – Area Handbook for Trinidad and Tobago . . . [See: JK Black]

 

BLUTSTEIN, Howard I, and I KAPLAN, and KT JOHNSTON, and DS MC MORRIS – Area Handbook for Jamaica . . . [See: I Kaplan]

 

BLYDEN, Edward Wilmot – [Civil rights leader (1832-1912). See: HR Lynch.]

 

BLYDEN, Nemata Amelia – West Indians in Africa, 1808-1880: The Disapora in Reverse. (Rochester, NY: U of Rochester P, Rochester Studies in African History and the Disapora, Vol 8) xi,258 pages 24 cm hb, 1 map, biblio, index, 2000. Sociology. History. Migration. Sierra Leone. Caribbean area. LOC

 

BLYTH, George - Reminiscences of Missionary Life. (Edinburgh) 1851. Church. Religion. Missionaries. Jamaica. An autobiography; a missionary memoir. By a British missionary. Very scarce

 

BM [pseud] – [See: "Letter to the West India Merchants . . ."]

 

Board of Enquiry into a Trade Dispute in the Sugar Industry . . . [See: HC Goldenberg]

 

BOARDMAN, Mark et al - Field Trip Guidebook: The Seventh Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas. (Fort Lauderdale, FL: Bahamian Field Station) 36 pages pamph, ills, 1994. Geology. Bahamas. A guidebook for geologists. Bow

 

Bob Marley: A Bibliography Compiled by the National Library of Jamaica Based on its Collection. (Kingston: National Library of Jamaica, Occasional Bibliography Series) vii,23 pages pamph, 1985. Music. Reggae. Bob Marley. Jamaica. A bibliography. See: RN Marley. LOC

 

BOBB-SEMPLE, Leona - Women in Jamaica: A Bibliography of Published and Unpublished Sources. (Mona: UWI, The Press) 150 pages pb, 1997. Gender studies. Women. Jamaica. A bibliography. By the Librarian at UWI, Mona. LOC

 

BOBROW, Jill – [Travel book writer (1951-)]

 

BOBROW, Jill, and Dana JINKINS - St Vincent and the Grenadines: A Plural Country. (New York: Concepts Publishing Inc, Norton) 123 pages, many col photos, 1985 1st ed; (ibidem) 126 pages, many col photos, 1993 4th ed. Descriptive. St Vincent & the Grenadines. A pictorial book. Bow, Gos, LOC

 

BOBROW, Jill, and Dana JINKINS - St Vincent and the Genadines: Gems of the Caribbean . . . [The title of the 1993 reprint of above.]

 

BOCCA, Geoffrey - The Life and Death of Harry Oaks. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday) 238 pages, 1959. Law. Crime. Harry Oaks. Bahamas. A biography. LOC

 

BODDAM-WETHAM, John Whetham - Roraima and British Guiana: With a Glance at Bermuda, the West Indies and the Spanish Main. (London: Hurst & Blackett) xiii,363 pages hb, 1 folding map, 1879. Descriptive. Roraima. Guyana. Bermuda. Caribbean area. By a British author (1843-?). Scarce. Cu.W, LOC, My.R, RES

 

BODDEN, Bert et al - Feasibility Report of the Establishment of a Fishing and Fish Processing Operation in Trinidad and Tobago. (Port-of-Spain: Privately Published) 52 pages pamph, 1969. Marine resources. Fisheries. Economics. Trinidad. Tobago. A technical assistance report. W&D

 

BODDEN, Will T - A Brief History of the Church of God in the Bay Islands of Honduras and the Cayman Islands. (George Town: The Author) 38 pages, 1990. Church. Religion. Baptists. Abortive colonies. Bay Islands. Cayman Islands. Bo.C

 

BODDINGTON, [?] – [Disputant with governor C Brisbane of St Vincent (fl 1814). See: “Minutes of His Majesty’s . . . “]

 

BODKIN, GE – Report of Mr GE Bodkin, Economic Biologist, on his Recent Visit to Trinidad, Barbados, and Dominica. (Georgetown) 6 pages pamph, 1912. Agriculture. Entomology. Plant pests. Trinidad. Barbados. Dominica. An official government report. Scarce. My.R

 

BODU, José M – [See: BODU, Jose M]

 

BODU, Jose M - Trinidadiana: Being a Chronological Review of Events which Have Occurred in the Island from the Conquest to the Present Day, with brief notes of the careers of some eminent colonists. (Port-of-Spain: AC Blondel) 108 pages 8vo, 1890. History. Trinidad. Treats political and social events, with emphasis on the period from 1845. Very scarce. Bay, BL, Cu.W, Pat, Rag, RES

 

BOECKEL, J van – [See: VAN BOECKEL]

 

BOEHM, David Alfred – Puerto Rico in Pictures. (New York: Sterling, Visual Geography Series) 64 pages, plates, 1 map, 1961 1st ed; (ibidem) 64 pages 26 cm, ills, [1962]; (ibidem) 64 pages 26 cm, plates, [1965]; (ibidem) 64 pages 26 cm, plates, 1966 rev ed; (New York: Sterling Publishing Co, Visual Geography Series. London and Sydney: Oak Tree Press Co Ltd) 64 pages 26 cm, plates, 1 map, 1969 rev ed; (ibidem) 64 pages, many b&w photos, 1973 17th print; (ibidem) 64 pages 26 cm, plates, [ca 1977]; (ibidem) 64 pages 27 cm, ills, [ca 1979]; (Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Group, Visual Geography Series) 64 pages 27 cm, col and b&w plates, index, [ca 1987]; (ibidem) 64 pages, plates, 1995. Geography. Education. Puerto Rico. A secondary school textbook. Later editions published under the pseudonym RV Masters. Bay, LOC, Viv

 

BOELDEKE, Alfred - With Graciela to the Headhunters. (New York: D McKay Co. London: Barrie) 166 pages hb, ills, 1958. Travel. Descriptive. Graciela. Guyana. A cruise narrative down the Orinoco. LOC

 

BOER, CN De – [See: DE BOER]

 

BOER, JG Wessels – [See: WESSELS BOER]

 

BOERGE, B - The Mini-dams and Ponds of Antigua: A Water Resource Study. (St John's) 1980. Public water supply. Dams. Ponds. Antigua. An official government report

 

BOESMAN, M – The “Comb-Toothed” Loricariinae of Surinam, with Reflections on the Phylogenetic Tendencies within the Family Loricariidae (Siluriformes, Siluroidei). (Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Zoologische Verhandelingen, 116) 56 pages pamph, 1971. Zoology. Catfish. Suriname. Com

 

BOESMAN, M – The Genus Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803, and its Surinam Representative (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). (Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Zoologische Verhandelingen, 99) 89 pages pamph, 1968. Zoology. Hypostomus Lacepede. Catfish. Suriname. Com

 

BOETLER, Nathaniel - The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands. (London: Hakluyt Society, 1st Series, No 65, Edited by Sir JH Lefroy) 327 pages hb, ills, 1 map, 1881 1st ed; (New York: Burt Franklyn) xi,327 pages 23 cm hb, ills, 1 map, 1964 facs ed. History. Colonial administration. Bermuda. Edited from a XVIIth century manuscript in the Sloan Collection in the BM by the colony’s governor General Sir J Henry Leafroy, who in the introduction mistakenly attributes the work to John Smith. Attributed by the BM catalogue to Boetler. Author (1577?-1640?). 1st edition scarce. BL, LOC, Pat

 

BOGDEN, Elizabeth – Caribbean Immigrants in New York City: A Demographic Study. (New York: New York City Dep’t of City Planning) 1988. Descriptive. Demography. Migration. New York City. Caribbean area

 

BOGDEN, Elizabeth – Immigration in New York. (New York: Praeger) 1987. Descriptive. Sociology. Migration. New York. Caribbean area. Includes the WI

 

BOGLE, Paul - [Jamaican landowner and Native Baptist preacher; hanged as leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865; national hero of Jamaica. See: D Robotham]

 

BOHLKE, James E, and Charles CG CHAPLIN - Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters. (Wynnewood: Academy of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) xxiii,771 pages 4to hb, 700 ills, 36 col and b&w plates, dj, 1968; (Austin: U of Texas P) xlviii,771 pages, plates, 1993 rep. Marine resources. Fishes. Bahamas. Scarce. LOC

 

BOHUN, Ralph - Discourse concerning the Origin and Properties of Wind, with an Historical Account of Hurricanes. (Oxford: printed by W Hall) 9,302 pages 8vo, ills, 1671. Meteorology. Hurricanes. Caribbean area. Exceptionally scarce. LOC, Sab 6146

 

BOIS, du – [See: DU BOIS]

 

BOISSIERE, J De – [See: DE BOISSIERE]

 

BOLDINGH, Isaac – The Flora of the Dutch West Indian Islands. (Leyden: EJ Brill) 2 vols, 321+197 pages 26 cm, ills, plates, maps, 1909-1914. Botany. Aruba. Bonaire. Curacao. St Eustatius. Saba. St Maarten. Netherlands Antilles. Vol 1, “The Flora of St Eustatius, Saba and St Martin,” Vol 2, “The Flora of Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire.” Scarce. Co.C, Com, LOC

 

BOLDINGH, L - Contribution to the Knowledge of the Flora of Anguilla. (Utrecht) 36 pages pamph, biblio, 1909. Botany. Anguilla. Very scarce. RES

 

BOLET, Margareta – Cuba: The Pearl of the Antilles. (Atlanta: Atlanta Public Schools, Cuban Ethnic Studies, Resource Material) 1976. Anthropology. Ethnology. Migration. Cuba. Bra

 

BOLINBROOKE, H – [See:  Bolingbroke]

 

BOLINGBROKE, Henry - A Voyage to the Demerary, Containing a Statistical Account of the Settlements There, and by those on the Essequibo, the Berbice, and other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana. By Henry Bolingbroke, Esq, Deputy Vendue Master at Surinam. (London: Richard Phillips) 400 pages 4to, 1map, 1807 1st ed; (ibidem) 1808; (ibidem, A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages) 220 pages 8vo, 1 map, 1809; (Philadelphia: M Carey) 260 pages 8vo, 1 map, 1813; (Georgetown: Daily Chronicle, Guiana Edition, No 1) 270 pages, 1947. Colonial administration. Descriptive. Demerara. Essequibo. Berbice. Guyana. Deals mainly with the economy but includes the geography, natural history, agriculture, Dutch plantations, slaves, culture, native manners and customs, marketplaces, etc; supports the slave trade; holds that the north SA mainland is more important to Britain than the WI islands and urges that the latter rather than the former be used in future peace settlements that might require territorial cessions. By English explorer (1785-1855); lived in Demerara, 1799-1805; deputy vendu master in Suriname. Early editions exceptionally scarce. BL, Bro, Cu.W, DNB, Gos, LOC, McD, Rag, RES, Sab 6182

 

[BOLINGBROKE, Henry St-John, 1st Viscount] – Craftsman Extraordinary: Being Remarks on a Late Pamphlet Entitled "Observations on the Conduct of Great Britain . . ." (London: Published by Caleb D’Anvers, Esq; London Printed for R Franklin) [3],28 pages 19 cm pamph, 1729. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Spanish depredations. Caribbean area. Another title of his "Some Remarks . . ." Signed “W Raleigh,” ie, Viscount Bolingbroke. A reply to B Hoadley, “A Defence to the Enquiry . . .” Exceptionally scarce. BL, Cu.W

 

[BOLINGBROKE, Henry St-John, 1st Viscount] – The Craftsman Extraordinary: Containing an Answer to the Defence of the Enquiry into the Reasons of the Conduct of Great Britain, in a Letter to the Craftsman. By John Trott, Yeoman. (London: Printed for Richard Francklin) ii,66,ii pages 8vo pamph, 1729. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Spanish depredations. Caribbean area. See also N Amherst. Replied to by “The Anti-Craftsman . . .” Exceptionally scarce. LOC

 

[BOLINGBROKE, Henry St-John, 1st Viscount] – Letter to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq, Concerning the State of Affairs in Europe. By John Trott. (London) 1730. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Spanish depredations. Caribbean area. See also C D'Anvers. Exceptionally scarce. Cu.W

 

BOLINGBROKE, Henry St-John, 1st Viscount – [British statesman and political writer (1698-1779); writing under the pseudonym of John Trott, Yeoman. LOC.]

 

BOLIOLI, Oscar L, ed - The Caribbean: Culture of Resistance, Spirit of Hope. (New York: Friendship P) 118 pages pb, 1993. Descriptive. Church. Religion. Caribbean area. A collection of essays on social and religious themes. By a Uruguayan Methodist minister. Bow, LOC

 

BOLLAERT, William – [See: P De Ursa]

 

[BOLLAN, William] - The Mutual Interests of Great Britain and the American Colonies Considered with Respect to an Act Passed Last Session of Parliament for Laying a Duty on Merchandise, etc . . . (London: W Nicoll) 12 pages 4to pamph, 1765. Colonial administration. Economics. Trade. Taxation. Caribbean area. Opposes the Sugar and Molasses Act. By the Massachusetts agent in England (ca 1710-1776). Exceptionally scarce. LOC, Rag, Sab 6218

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - Belize: A New Nation in Central America. (Boulder, CO: Westview P) xiv,157 pages hb, ills, maps, biblio, 1986. Descriptive. Belize. Analyses Belizean history and its contemporary society as it documents the country’s full political independence since 1981. Serves as a sequel to his 1977 “Formation of a Colonial Society. . .” Gos, LOC, Whi, Wri

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - Colonialism and Resistance in Belize: Essays in Historical Sociology. (Mona: UWI, ISER. Benque Viejo del Carmen: Cubola Productions, SPEAR) 232 pages pb, 1988. Sociology. History. Belize. A collection of his essays. Gos, LOC, Wri

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - The Formation of a Colonial Society: Belize, from Conquest to Crown Colony. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, Studies in Atlantic History & Culture) xiv,240 pages hb, biblio, index, 1977. History. Sociology. Belize. One of the best histories of Belize prior to the inception of Crown Colony status in 1871. Car, Gos, Jor, LOC, New, Woo, Wri

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - The History of Belize: Nation in the Making. (Belize City: Sunshine Books) 78 pages, col ills, 1983. Descriptive. History. Belize. LOC

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - On the March: Labour Relations in the British Caribbean, 1934-39. (Kingston: Ian Randle. London: James Currey) 224 pages pb, 1 map, biblio, index, 1995. Industrial relations. Trade unions. Public order. Labour riots. Caribbean area. Explores the regional nature of labour unrest in the WI in the mid to late 1930s. LOC

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism, and Culture in the Caribbean and Central America. (Belize City: The Angelus P. Kingston: Ian Randle) 334 pages pb, biblio, 1997. History. Slavery. Colonialism. Culture. Caribbean area. A collection of essays on colonial and Creole societies, slavery, class, culture, politics, and literature. LOC

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel - US sociologist; professor at UWI 1968-71; at Colgate U from 1972. Web page.]

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel, and Assad SHOMAN - Land in Belize, 1765-1871: The Origins of Land Tenure, Use, and Distribution in a Dependent Economy. (Mona: UWI, ISER, Law & Society in the Caribbean, No 6) 142 pages pb, 5 tables, 1 map, biblio, 1975 1st ed; (ibidem) 142 pages pb, 1 map, biblio, 1977. History. Land tenure. Land use. Land distribution. Belize. An impressive array of documentation on the dispossession of the native peoples of Belize. Ban, Car, Gos, Jor, LOC, New, W&D, Woo, Wri

 

BOLLAND, Orlando Nigel, and Assad SHOMAN - Slavery in Belize; and Birth of the Nationalist Movement in Belize. (Belize City: BISRA) 93 pages, 1972. History. Slavery. Politics. Nationalist movements. Belize. A collection of two essays. LOC

 

BOLLING, H Christine - Jamaica: Factors Affecting Its Capacity to Import Food. (Washington, DC: Dep't of Agriculture, GPO) iv,30 pages pamph, ills, 1983. Agriculture. Food. Economics. Trade. Imports. Jamaica. An official government report. LOC

 

BOLLING, H Christine - Trinidad and Tobago: Factors Affecting its Capacity to Import Food. (Washington, DC: Dep’t of Agriculture) v,31 pages pamph, ills, 1983. Agriculture. Food. Economics. Trade. Imports. Trinidad. Tobago. An official government report. LOC

 

BOLT, Christine – The Anti-Slavery Movement and Reconstruction: A Study in Anglo-American Cooperation, 1833-77. (London: Oxford UP for the IRR) 197 pages, 1969. History. Slavery. Emancipation. Caribbean area. Com

 

BOLT, Christine – Victorian Attitudes to Race. (London: Routledge. Toronto: U of Toronto) 254 pages hb, [1971]. Sociology. Race relations. Caribbean area. Contains a chapter on the Morant Bay Rebellion. LOC

 

BOLT, Christine, and Seymour DRESCHER, ed - Anti-Slavery, Religion, and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey. (Hamden, CT: Archon Books. Folkstone: Dawson) xi,377 pages hb, 1980. History. Slavery. Church. Religion. Reform. Roger Anstey. Caribbean area. A collection of essays. Bow, LOC

 

BONACHEA, Ramon L, and Marta SAN MARTIN - The Cuban Insurrection, 1952-1959. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, Transaction Books) 450 pages pb, maps, biblio, 1974 1st ed; (ibidem) 450 pages hb, maps, biblio, 1980; (ibidem) 450 pages pb, maps, biblio, 1980; (ibidem) 450 pages pb, maps, biblio, 1995. Politics. Cuba. Bow, Chi, Gos, LOC, Stu, Whi

 

BONACHEA, Rolando E, and Nelson P VALDES, ed - Che: Selected Works of Ernesto Che Guevara . . . [See: E Guevara]

 

BONACHEA, Rolando E, and Nelson P VALDES, ed - Cuba in Revolution. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, Anchor Books) 544 pages, 1972. Politics. Cuba. A collection of essays. Chi, Gos, LOC, Stu

 

BONACHEA, Rolando E, and Nelson P VALDES, ed - Revolutionary Struggle . . . [See: F Castro Ruz]

 

BONADIE, J Burns, ed - Trends in Labour Legislation in the Caribbean. (Bridgetown: CCL, Caribbean Labour Economics Research Training Program, Monograph No 3) 585 pages, biblio, 1977. Law. Statutes. Industrial relations. Caribbean area. Car, Gos, Ing, LOC, New

 

Bonaparte in the West Indies . . . [See: J Stephen]

 

BOND, James - Birds of the West Indies. (London: Collins) 256 pages hb, many ills, maps, 1960 1st ed; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) 256 pages 8vo hb, 186 ills, maps, dj, 1961 1st ed; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) 256 pages hb, ills, col plates, maps, dj, 1971 2nd ed; (London: Collins) 256 pages, ills, maps, 1971 2nd ed; (ibidem) 256 pages, ills, maps, 1974 3rd ed; (ibidem) 256 pages hb, ills, maps, 1979 4th ed; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) 256 pages hb, ills, 94 col photos, maps, 1985 5th ed; (London: Collins) 256 pages hb, ills, 94 maps, 1985; (Boston: Houghton Miflin) 256 pages, ills, maps, 1986; (Norwalk: Roger Tory, Peterson Field Guide, Collector's Lifetime Edition) 256 pages 8vo hb, 186 drawings, maps, gilt decorated, leather cover, 1990. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. A classic. Drawings by EL Poole and plates by DR Eckelberry. Several impressions in each edition. The 1990 is a reprint of the 1961 edition. Both issues of the first edition scarce. Be.A, Cev, Co.C, Com, Gos, Ing, LOC, Mol, My.D, My.R, Viv, Pot

 

BOND, James - Birds of the West Indies: An Account with full Descriptions of all the Birds Known to Occur or to have Occurred on the West Indian Islands. (Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) 456 pages, 1936. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. Scarce. My.R

 

BOND, James - Check-list of Birds of the West Indies. (Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences) xi,184 pages, 1 folding map, 1940 1st ed; (ibidem) xiii,182 pages, 1 folding map, 1945 2nd ed; (ibidem) 200 pages, 1 folding map, 1950 3rd ed; (ibidem) 214 pages, 1 folding map, 1956 4th ed. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. Updated by 7 supplements from 1956 to 1962. Be.A, Co.C, Com, LOC, My.R

 

BOND, James - A Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies. (New York: Macmillan) 1936 1st ed; (ibidem) ix,257 pages 8vo hb, col frontis, 211 drawings, 1947; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Petersen Field Guide Series) 256 pages, ills, 1993 5th ed. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. Line drawings by EL Poole. The original title of his “Birds of the West Indies.” Bo.C, Co.C, Com, LOC, My.R

 

BOND, James - First Supplement to the Check-list of Birds of the West Indies. (Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Science) 1951. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area

 

BOND, James - Peterson Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co) pb, 1993 5th ed. Wildlife. Ornithology. Caribbean area. See also the 1990 edition of "Birds of the West Indies" above

 

BOND, James - [American ornithologist (1900-?); curator of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. LOC.]

 

BOND, Mary Wickham - Far Afield in the Caribbean: Migratory Flights of a Naturalist's Wife. (Wynnewood, PA: Livingston Publishing Co, Harrowood Books) 142 pages hb, ills, 1 map, 1971. Descriptive. Nature studies. Caribbean area. Illustrated by Elizabeth R Leydon. By Mrs James Bond. Bow, Com, LOC, My.D, My.R

 

BOND, Samson - A Publick Tryal of the Quakers in Barmudas upon the First Day of May, 1678. (Boston in New England: Printed by Samuel Green, upon Assignment of Samuel Sewall) 100 pages 4to, 1682. Church. Religion. Quakers. Bermuda. Rare. Sab 6285

 

BONE, Louis Woolford - Secondary Education in the Guianas. (Chicago: U of Chicago, Comparative Education Monographs, No 2) ii,70 pages, 1962. Education. Secondary schools. Guyana. Suriname. Netherlands Antilles. Guyane. French West Indies. Based on her thesis. By an educator (1921-?). Co.C, Com, Gos, LOC

 

BONHOMME, Samuel – Enoch Powell and the West Indian Immigrants. (London: The Afro-American & West Indian Publishers) 83 pages, 1971. Sociology. Race relations. Migration. Enoch Powell. Britain. Caribbean area. Com

 

BONILLA, E Seda – [See: SEDA BONILLA]

 

BONILLA, Frank, and Ricardo CAMPOS - Industry and Idleness. (New York: Hunter College) 106 pages pb, 1986. Economics. Sociology. Unemployment. Idleness. Migration. Puerto Rico. Bow, LOC

 

BONILLA SANTIAGO, Gloria - Organizing Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers: The Experience of Puerto Ricans in New Jersey. (New York: Peter Lang Publishers) viii,260 pages 23 cm, biblio, index, [ca 1988]. Industrial relations. Farm workers. Migration. New Jersey. Puerto Rico. Bow, LOC

 

BONINI, William Emory – [US geologist (1926-?). LOC.]

 

BONINI, William Emory, and Robert B HARGRAVES, and Reginald SHAGAM, ed - Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary and Regional Tectonics. (Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America, Memoir Series, No 162) 432 pages, 1984. Geology. Plate tectonics. Caribbean area. Bow, Gos, LOC

 

BONNER, Willard Hallam - Pirate Laureate: The Life and Legends of Captain Kidd. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP) 1947. Descriptive. Piracy. William Kidd. Caribbean area. A biography. Author (1899-?). LOC

 

BONET, WA Cardona – [See: CARDONA BONET.]

 

BONNET, Stede - [British pirate (?-1718); ex-army major; hung in Carolina. See: D Defoe; and "Tryals of . . ." LOC.]

 

BONNETT, Aubrey W – Institutional Adaptation of West Indian Immigrants to America: An Analysis of Rotating Credit Associations. (Washington, DC: UP of America) xvi,142 pages, [1981]. Banking. Finance. Credit associations. Migration. United States. Caribbean area. Bra, LOC

 

BONNEY, Anne – [Female pirate. See: CV Black.]

 

BONSAL, Philip Wilson - Cuba, Castro and the United States. (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P) xii,318 pages hb, plates, dj, [1971]. International relations. Cold War. Fidel Castro. United States. Cuba. Chi, Gos, LOC

 

BONSAL, Stephen - The American Mediterranean. (New York: Moffat, Yard & Co) xiv,488 pages 8vo hb, 16 photos, 2 col folding maps, biblio, 1912 1st ed; (London: Hurst & Blackett) 488 pages hb, 16 photos, 2 folding maps, biblio, 1913; (New York: Gordon P) 488 pages hb, photos, col folding maps, biblio, 1977 rep. Descriptive. Geography. Caribbean area. A geographic description and historical account of the WI from a US perspective. 1st edition scarce. Bay, BL, Bow, Co.C, Com, Gos, Lag, LOC, RES, Tra, Viv

 

BONSAL, Stephen - The Fight for Santiago: The Story of the Soldier in the Cuban Campaign, from Tampa to the Surrender. (New York: Doubleday & McClure Co) xxviii,543 pages 8vo hb, ills, maps, 1899. International relations. Spanish-American War. Santiago. Tampa. Cuba. BL, LOC

 

BONSAL, Stephen - The Real Condition of Cuba Today. (New York: Harper & Bros) viii,156 pages 8vo, 1897. International relations. Spanish-American War. Cuba. Bay, BL, Cu.W, LOC

 

BONSAL, Stephen - [US historian (1865-1951). LOC.]

 

BONWICK, James - The British Colonies and Their Resources. (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co) 4 vols, 8vo, 1886. Descriptive. Colonial administration. British Empire. Caribbean area. Includes the WI which are dealt with in the volume on America. BL, LOC, Rag

 

BONWICK, James - Resources of the Bahamas. (London) 1886. Colonial administration. Economics. Bahamas. Very scarce. Cu.W

 

BONWICK, James - [Australian writer of school books and histories (1817-1906). LOC.]