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Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean examines the diversity of living environments that the enslaved inhabitants of the colonial Caribbean by analyzing archaeological evidence collected from a wide variety of sites across the region. Archaeological investigations of domestic architecture and artifacts illuminate the nature of household organization; fundamental changes in settlement patterns; and the manner in which power was invariably linked with the material arrangements of space among the enslaved living and working in a variety of contexts throughout the region, including plantations, fortifications, and urban centers. While research in the region has provided a considerable amount of data at the household-level, much of this work is biased towards artifact analysis, resulting in unfamiliarity with the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting households. The chapters in this book provide detailed reconstructions of the built environments associated with slavery and account for the cultural behaviors and social arrangements that shaped these spaces. It brings together case studies of Caribbean slave settlements through historical archaeology as a means of exposing the diversity of people and practices in these various landscapes, across the British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles as well as the Bahamian archipelago.

The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons utilizes the benefit of thirty years’ hindsight to reflect on and critique the Grenada Revolution. This collection of twelve essays brings together in one place the perspectives of scholars, politicians and technocrats drawn from North America and the Caribbean. The volume introduces the reader to historical analyses, insiders’ perspectives, theoretical critiques and prescriptions for the way forward. The principal aim of the volume is to use the Grenada Revolution as the point of departure to revisit a critical period in the post colonial Caribbean experience to explore lessons for Caribbean politics and society. The volume seeks to examine several broad questions: what factors gave rise to the Grenada Revolution on March 13, 1979? Why did the Grenada Revolution implode in October 1983, paving the way for the United States invasion of Grenada? What is the legacy of the Grenada Revolution and the implications of its demise for the Caribbean Left and for party politics in post-revolutionary Grenada? A central contention is that the Grenada Revolution marked a critical juncture in Caribbean development and there are glaring lessons to be learnt from the Grenada experience for democratic transformation and revolutionary change in the twenty-first century.