The Coolie Speaks; Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's light brown linen spine over pale paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xxiii]; 311pp. Some very light wear to the extremities of the dustjacket, and a small price sticker to the lower rear panel, internally clean, otherwise a very good copy indeed.

A intensively researched and academic history of the lives of Chinese laborers in 19th century Cuba, their experiences and struggles with African enslaved peoples under the Cuban plantation system, and the manner in which populations already discriminated against on racial grounds were routinely pitted against each other.