CAPE Exam Resource Guide

Introduction

Unit 1: The Caribbean in the Atlantic World

Unit 2: The Atlantic World and Global Transformations
Module 1: Atlantic World: Interactions
Module 2: Atlantic Development: Identity and Industry

Additional Bibliography


Introduction

This guide contains key resources from the CAPE History Syllabus available at the National Library of Jamaica. The guide provides references for locating West Indian history resources available for consultation at the National Library of Jamaica.

In addition to the items listed in this booklet there are other items in the National Library’s collection which may also serve to be helpful to CAPE students.

 UNIT 1: The Caribbean in the Atlantic World

Module 1: Indigenous Societies

Andrews, K. The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder 1530 – 1630. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
972.902 And

Steward, J.H. Handbook of the South American Indians. Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institute,
1946 – 1959. (6 vols)
970.3 Smi

Shepherd, V. and Beckles, H. (eds.). Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000.

305.56709729 Ja She

Van Sertima, I. They Came Before Columbus. London: Random House, 1977.
970.019 Van
 


Module 2: Slave Systems: Character and Disarmament

Fick, C. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
972.9403 WI Fic

James, C.L.R. The Black Jabcobins, Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Random House, 1963.
972.9403 Jam

Shepherd, V. and Beckles, H. (eds.). Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000.
305.56709729 Ja She

Williams, E. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Reprinted 1995 with an introduction by Colin Palmer.
330.9129 Wil
 


Module 3: Freedom in Action

Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V. (eds). Caribbean Freedom. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1994.
972.9 Ja Car

Heuman, G. ‘The Killing Time’: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. London: MacMillan, 1995.
972.9204 Ja Heu

Laurence, K. O. A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana
1875 – 1917. St. Martin’s Press, 1994
331.62540729 Ja Lau

Rodney, W. A History of the Guyanese Working People 1881-1903. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
331.11 WI Rod (C3459)

Unit 2: The Atlantic World and Global Transformations

Module1: Atlantic World: Interactions

Rodney, W.A. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Bogle-L’Ouverture,1972.
960 Rod

Module 2: Atlantic Development: Identity and Industry

Williams, E. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Reprinted 1995 with an introduction by Colin Palmer.
330.9129 Wil

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Craton, M. Testing the Chains – Resistance to Slavery in British West Indies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
326 Cra

Dabydeen, D. and Samaria, B. (eds.). India in the Caribbean. London: Hansib, 1987.
972.900491411 Ind

Drescher, S. Capitalism and Anti-Slavery: British Mobalization in Comparative Perspective. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
322.440941 Dre

Ferguson, J. The Story of the Caribbean People. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999.
972.7 Ja Fer

Hulme, P. Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492 – 1797. New York: Routledge, 1992.
972.902 Hul

Knight, F. The Caribbean: the Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
972.9 Ja Kni

Knight, F. (ed.) General History of the Caribbean: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. Vol. 111. Paris: UNESCOPublishing, 1997.
972.9 Ja. Gen

Lane, A. (ed.) The Debate Over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and his Critics. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
325 Elk

Look Lai, W. Indentured Labour, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838 – 1918. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993.
306.363 W.I. Loo

Moore, B. & Wilmot, S (eds.)Before and After 1865. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1998.
972.9 Ja Bef

Rubin, V. and Tuden A (eds.). Perspectives on slavery in the New World Plantation Societies. The New York Academy of Sciences, 1971.
305.567097 Com

Sheller, M. Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. London: MacMillan, 2000.
972.904 Ja She

Sheridan, R. Sugar and Slavery. Kingston, Jamaica:Canoe Press,1994.
330.972903 Ja She

Shepherd, V.A. (ed.) Women in Caribbean History. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999.
305.409729 Ja Wom

Shepherd, V.A. Transients to Settlers: The Experience of Indians in Jamaica. Leeds: Peepal Tree/Warwick University, 1994.
306.363 Ja She

Shepherd, V.A. Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of passage from India to the Caribbean. Kingston: The Press, UWI, 2002.
988.102 Ja She

Shepherd, V.A. Brereton, B. & Bailey (eds.). Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspectives. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1995.
305.4 Ja Eng


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