The University of the West Indies Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher of books in fourteen academic disciplines. It is particularly well known for its work in Caribbean history, Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean literature, gender studies, education and political science. Founded in 1992, the press has over 350 books in print. Its books are peer-reviewed and approved by an editorial committee composed of local and international scholars. For orders and customer service in the United States, Caribbean and Latin America please contact the University of the West Indies Press by email at uwipress@uwimona.edu.jm or donna.muirhead@uwimona.edu.jm
Recent Awards and Prizes
Dying to Better ThemselvesWest Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Awards:
- 2015 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award
- OCM Bocas 2015 Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
- Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
Citizenship under PressureThe 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
Awards:
- PROSE Awards, Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural Studies, 2015
- 2014 IndieFab Award Finalist, Social Sciences (Adult Nonfiction)
Britain's Black DebtReparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Awards:
- 2013 IndieFab Award Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
Selected Writings of Alfred H. Mendes
Awards:
- 2013 IndieFab Award Finalist, Essays(Adult Nonfiction)
Applications of International Trade TheoryThe Caribbean Perspective
Awards:
- 2013 IndieFab Award Finalist, Business & Economics (Adult Nonfiction)
Cascade: A Novel
Awards:
- 2010 IndieFab Award Finalist, Historical (Adult Fiction)
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica- Best Adult Creative Writing (PROSE)
- 2013 JAMCOPY Award Best Creative Writing (PROSE)
Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838
Awards:
- OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Non-fiction)
Global Reggae
Awards:
- 2012 IndieFab Award Winner Performing Arts & Music (Adult Non-fiction)
Becoming BelizeA History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity, 1528-1823
Awards:
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2012
Proslavery PriestThe Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 1729-1788
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Adult Non-Fiction, 2013
- 2011 IndieFab Award Winner, History (Adult Non-fiction)
The Jamaican TheatreHighlights of Performing Arts in the Twentieth Century
Awards:
- 2011 IndieFab Award Winner, Performing Arts (Adult Nonfiction)
Haiti RisingHaitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010
Awards:
- 2010 IndieFab Award Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
Natural Hazards Atlas of Jamaica
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Reference Book, 2013
- Outstanding Publishing Proposal, Environmental Studies, UWI Press, 2010
Hope TransformedA Historical Sketch of the Hope Landscape, St Andrew, Jamaica, 1660–1960
Awards:
- Best Publication, Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica , Best Selling Academic Book, 2013
Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O.
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Adult Non-Fiction Award, 2006
Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Reference Book, 2008
- Prose Finalist/Honorable Mention, Archeology & Anthropology, 2008
- Notable Book, Caribbean Review of Books, 2008
Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian
Awards:
- Caribbean Studies Association, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, 2008
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Academic Book, 2008
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Adult Non-Fiction, 2008
Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani
Awards:
- Caribbean Philosophical Association, Frantz Fanon Award, Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought, 2007
- Honorable Mention, The Caribbean Studies Association’s Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, 2007
Central Africa In The Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures
Awards:
- African Studies Association, Melville J. Herkovits Finalist, 2004
- Caribbean Studies Association, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, 2004
- Best Publication, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Mona, 2004
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Academic Book, 2004
Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Academic Book, 2006
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Awards:
- Caribbean Philosophical Association, Frantz Fanon Prize, 2005
- Latin American Studies Association, Bryce Wood Award, 2006
- Modern Language Association, Katherine Singer Award, 2006
- Caribbean Studies Association, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, 2007
Manuscript Sources For The History Of The West Indies
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Academic Book, 2001
Our Cause For His Glory: Christianisation and Emancipation in Jamaica
Awards:
- Jamaica Heritage Award, 2000
Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Development in Jamaica 1938–1945
Awards:
- Jamaica Heritage Award, 2000
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898
Awards:
- First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1999
Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom 1739–1912
Awards:
- Caribbean History Association, Elsa Goveia Prize, 1999
- Jamaican Heritage Award, 2000
Law, Justice And Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie 1829–1892
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Academic Book, 1997
A Man Divided: Michael Garfield Smith, Jamaican Poet and Anthropologist 1921–1993
Awards:
- Book Industry Association of Jamaica, Best Adult Non-Fiction, 1991