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HANSIB PUBLICATIONS MULTICULTURAL PUBLISHING SINCE 1970 www.hansibpublications.com CATALOGUE • WINTER 2014-2015 UK/EU Distributor & Overseas distributors, agents, stockists, wholesalers and bookshops UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE GUYANA SAINT LUCIA Austin’s Book Services AF Valmont Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd 190 Church Street, Georgetown 1-7 Laborie Street, P.O. Box 172, Castries Unit 3, Olympia Trading Estate Tel: 592 226 7350 Tel: 758 452 3817. Fax: 758 452 4225 Coburg Road, London N22 6TZ Fax: 592 227 7396 Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 829 3000. Fax: 0208 881 5088 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sunshine Bookshop Michael Forde Bookshop BOX GM 565, Gablewoods Mall, Castries 41 Robb Street, Lacytown, Georgetown Tel: 758 452 3222. Fax: 758 453 1879 ANGUILLA Tel: 592 225 5326 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Coral Reef Bookstore TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Little Harbour New Era Business Enterprise Books & Office Supplies P.O. Box 966 Cheddi Jagan International Airport THL Building, Milford Road, Scarborough The Valley A1-2640 Tel: 592 261 4354 Tel: 868 635 2665 Tel: 264-462 6657 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] JAMAICA Charran Bookstore ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Trinity Mall, Trinity Headstart Bookshop Tel: 868 640 3155 Best of Books 75 East Street, Kingston Email: [email protected] Lower St Mary’s Street, P.O. Box 433 Tel: 876 948 2617 / 967 3086 St John’s Gurley & Associates (The Book Specialist) Tel: 268 562 3198. Fax: 268 462 2199 Island Books & Beyond Ltd 35 Richmond Street, Port of Spain Email: [email protected] 1901 Morgan Road, Ironshore, Montego Bay Tel: 868 623 3461. Fax: 868 623 3906 Tel: 876 446 9447 / 718 355 8313 The Map Shop Ishmael M. Khan & Sons Ltd St Mary’s Street, St John’s Kingston Bookshop Ltd 20 Henry Street, Port of Spain Tel: 268 462 3993. Fax: 268 462 3995 74 King Street, Kingston Tel: 868 623 4523. Fax: 868 625 7996 Email: [email protected] Tel: 876 967 4756 / 922 7312 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] BARBADOS Keith Khan’s Books Etc Ltd LMH Publishing 58 Frederick Street, Port of Spain Cloisters Bookstore Ltd 7 Norman Road, Sagicor Industrial Park Tel: 868 623 1201 / 653 2665 Hicks & Cowell Streets Suite 10-11, Kingston C.S.O. Fax: 868 657 0468 Bridgetown, BB 11144 Tel: 876 938 0005 Email: [email protected] Tel: 246 426 2662 Email: [email protected] Fax: 246 429 7269 Mohammed’s Bookstore Email: [email protected] Novelty Trading Co. Ltd 49 High Street, San Fernando 53 Hanover Street, Kingston Tel: 868 657 1012 SAP Limited Tel: 876 922 5661 Email: [email protected] #3 Balls Plantation, Christ Church, BB17074 Email: [email protected] Tel: 246 231 2801 / 3409 Nigel R. Khan, Bookseller Fax: 246 428 5363 Sangsters Bookshop 3 North East Drive, Toruba Road, Marabella Email: [email protected] 101 Water Lane, Kingston Tel: 868 658 6019. Fax: 868 658 3066 Tel: 876 922 3648 / 3640 Email: [email protected] University Bookshop University of the West Indies University Bookshop Lexicon Trinidad Ltd Cave Hill, St Michael University of the West Indies Lot 87, Frederick Industrial Settlement Tel: 246 417 4517 2a Gibraltar Hall Road, Mona Campus Estate, Caroni Kingston 7 Tel: 868 662 1863 / 645 3967 / 3592 NORTH AMERICA Tel: 876 977 1401 Fax: 868 663 0081 Email: [email protected] ROM Direct Marketing Services ST KITTS & NEVIS 122 Howden Rd, Unit 5 Metropolitan Book Suppliers Ltd Toronto, Ontario M1R 3E4 Greenlands Books and Things 11-13 Frederick Street, Port of Spain Tel: 416 297 9500. Fax: 416 297 9506 Greenlands Park Tel: 868 623 3462. Fax: 868 627 0856 Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 964, Basseterre, St Kitts Email: [email protected] Tel: 869 465 1011 DOMINICA Email: [email protected] RIK Services Ltd (Trinidad Book World) 102-104 High Street, San Fernando Jays Ltd Tel: 868 652 4824 / 3830. Fax: 868 657 6793 P.O. Box 254, 42 Kennedy Avenue Visit our website Email: [email protected] Roseau www.hansibpublications.com Tel: 767 448 6375 UWI Bookshop Fax: 767 448 6926 Hansib books are also available University of the West Indies, St Augustine Email: [email protected] from www.amazon.co.uk Tel: 868 662 5837 2 www.hansibpublications.com NEW FROM HANSIB PUBLICATIONS GLIMPSES OF A GLOBAL KANPUR TO KOLKATA LIFE Labour Recruitment for the Shridath Ramphal Sugar Colonies This memoir involves a cast of the world’s Basdeo Mangru leading characters and the central role Shridath This unique publication provides a Ramphal played alongside them in issues such comprehensive assessment of labour recruiting as ending apartheid in South Africa, bringing operations from where the great majority of Zimbabwe to independence, and the release of Caribbean East Indians originated. Besides its Nelson Mandela. Leaders from every continent insightful analysis of crucial emigration issues, engaged with him as the longest serving this book highlights the grief and trauma of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth (1975-1990). The core of the book emigrants’ families, particularly the wives left is concerned with the fifteen years he served as Commonwealth Secretary- behind in India. What is most interesting are the personal recollections of General, for eleven of which Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s Prime returnees with regard to the working and living conditions in the colonies Minister. and their special attraction, the uncertainties of the voyage and the socio- Glimpses of a Global Life is as well an analysis of major problems and economic conditions in Indian villages. challenges that dominated the 20th century which continue to shape the “... a vivid tapestry of ... Village India, depot operations, iniquitous police contours of the 21st. practice, degradation of women and the wrenching trauma of family “Shridath Ramphal ... understood the principles which were important to separation.” DR GARY GIRDHARI, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, GUYANA JOURNAL the strength and unity of the Commonwealth ... The world sorely needs more like him at the present time.” MALCOLM FRASER, PRIME MINISTER OF • Paperback, 120 pages, 216 x 138 mm AUSTRALIA (1975-1983) • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-910553-00-8 “Sonny Ramphal describes his vision and crafts a rich account of his service to the international community. The book provides a timely THE PRICE OF CONSCIENCE reminder of the importance of multilateral cooperation.” KOFI ANNAN, Howard Noel Nankivell and SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS (1997-2006) labour unrest in the British “This is a book about tomorrow. Sonny Ramphal’s ‘glimpses’ of a recent past are powerful guides to our troubling future.” JOE CLARK, PRIME MINISTER Caribbean in 1937 and 1938 OF CANADA (1979-1980) Brinsley Samaroo “This is a beautifully written memoir composed with sharp insight and The British Empire was created by thousands of clear vision by one of the foremost statesmen of the 20th century...” IAN public officers who were despatched from MCDONALD, AUTHOR AND POET London to carve out an empire over which ‘the “Sonny Ramphal has written an extremely valuable book. I know first- sun would never set’. They were trained to hand of the patience and strong leadership he displayed in bringing the maintain law and order so that British investors Commonwealth nations together for the greatest achievements in its could obtain secure holdings in the various colonies. There was always a history ... [He] recaptures the drama and colour of some historic moments British military presence close at hand, which could easily be summoned accurately and well.” BRIAN MULRONEY, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA (1984-1993) to keep the ‘natives’ under control. Equally, the education system was geared to socialise subject peoples into an acceptance of the greatness “... a brilliant recollection ... of an intellectual Titan whose breadth of talents of the British Empire. The vast majority of administrators expanded the and depth of experience resulted in the summons to serve on six Empire with little thought about the welfare of the colonised peoples. This international Commissions.” P.J. PATTERSON, PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA (1992- biography tells of an exception to this rule, Howard Noel Nankivell, who 2006) was born in Jamaica to a British naval family, educated in England and then employed as a civil servant in that island in 1911. This is the story of “... a beautifully written and revelatory story stemming not just from his a maverick senior public officer who dared to let conscience be his guide adroit use of 20th century papers released under the 30-year rule, but his and suffered the consequences. description of his ancestral past and the links between slavery and indenture.” LORD STEEL OF AIKWOOD, LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY (1976-1988) • Paperback, 120 pages, 216 x 138 mm £9.99 ISBN 978-1-910553-04-6 • Hardback, 624 pages, 236 x 158 mm • • • £17.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-92-7 CUGOANO AGAINST GLIMPSES OF THE SUGAR SLAVERY INDUSTRY Martin Hoyles The Art of Garnet Ifill Out of the three leading black figures in eighteenth-century England (Sancho, Equiano The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago has and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well been considerably reduced in size and no longer known. Yet he was the most radical, campaigning dominates the landscape of central Trinidad as not just against the slave trade but for a ‘total it had done for more than two centuries. By the abolition of slavery’. Cugoano’s passionate middle of the twentieth century, most of the rhetoric and reasoned argument make his book elements of the industry were undergoing a milestone in anti-slavery literature. significant changes as modern technology replaced older, less efficient modes of production.