Christopher Taylor: 32 books

Book cover of Empire of Neglect

Empire of Neglect

The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018

Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling...
Book cover of Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000

Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy. It is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have bee unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily...
Book cover of Best of Asian Erotica
by John Burdett, O Thiam Chin, Amir Muhammed
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

The sixteen seductive sex stories in this steamy second volume of literary erotica from Asia are certain to entertain and arouse. Absolutely nothing is out of bounds, offering readers a glimpse into the erotic lives of Asia’s inhabitants. Well-known authors John Burdett and Dawn Farnham are joined...
Book cover of National Trust Histories: Cambridgeshire & Mid Anglia
by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

Early in the 20th century, geographers devoted a lot of time attempting to draw boundaries around geographical regions. Their failure was a reminder of the impossibility of drawing sharp lines around areas which gradually merge into their neighbours. Mid Anglia comprises the new counties of Bedfordshire,...
Book cover of The Black Carib Wars

The Black Carib Wars

Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
Book cover of The Black Carib Wars

The Black Carib Wars

Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
Book cover of A Macroeconomic Regime for the 21st Century

A Macroeconomic Regime for the 21st Century

Towards a New Economic Order

by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

The book aims to give non-economists a detailed understanding of how macroeconomic policy works in modern economies, and the issues it faces. The world has recently been through a huge economic crisis and thinking people everywhere have reason to wonder whether something is not seriously wrong with...
Book cover of The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories
by Christopher Priest, Michael McDowell, Bernard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin - John Blackburn - Michael Blumlein - Mary Cholmondeley - Hugh Fleetwood - Stephen Gregory - Gerald...
Book cover of People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
by Stephen Graham Jones, Nalo Hopkinson, Victo Ngai
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue! Edited by Nisi Shawl Fiction 'What Futures' by Su-Yee Lin 'Shadow Animals' by Stephen Graham Jones 'Darkout' by E. Lily Yu 'The Executioner' by Jennifer Marie Brissett 'I Understand' by Jermaine McGill 'Walking Round Money' by...
Book cover of Crises And Conflicts
by Ian Whates, Gavin Smith, Adam Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th birthday of independent publisher NewCon Press.1. Introduction2. The Last Tank Commander –...
Book cover of Nightmare Magazine, Issue 81 (June 2019)
by John Joseph Adams, Laird Barron, Megan Arkenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. One of the things we believe here at NIGHTMARE is that stories have a tremendous power. They...
Book cover of Flying Fish in the Great White North

Flying Fish in the Great White North

The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians

by Christopher Stuart Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians...
Book cover of Old Habits
by Christopher R Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011

Stoce has grown up on the streets of Farport and learned to be an extraordinary theif. Hired to steal the Agrandon gems by a crime lord, he loses the gems and finds himself running from assassins sent by the crime lord and rival thieves after the gems. Pursuing the lost gems, Stoce ends up...
Book cover of In The Dark
by Deering, Rachel; Jordan, Justin; Bunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014

In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new original terror tales from the darkest and most brilliant minds in comics and prose. Featuring an introduction by American Vampire, The Wake, and Severed writer Scott Snyder, and a frightful feature on the history of horror comics, through their rotten rise and dreadful decline by comic book historian Mike Howlett!
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