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  • von Anthony Harriott
    65,00 €

    This study examines the growing crime problem in Jamaica, and explores the relationship between crime, politics and the economy and analyses the impact of crime on tourism. The articles provide a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and control of crime.

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    81,00 €

    A contribution to the analysis of Caribbean politics, exploring the political culture of the Caribbean in order to understand the regional differences. The contributors examine the topic from their varied cultural experiences and seek to offer a new dimension to the study of political culture.

  • - Essays in Historical Sociology
    von O.Nigel Bolland
    58,00 €

    The social history of Belize is marked by conflict; between British settlers and the Maya; between masters and slaves; between capitalists and workers; and between the colonial administration and the Belizean people. This collection of essays, analyzes the most import topics during three centuries of colonialism.

  • - Patterns of Political and Economic Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago
    von A.N.R. Robinson
    84,00 €

    If any doubt remains, the story of Trinidad and Tobago should dispel the illusion that money and technical assistance can launch a new station in the world community. This work seeks to probe the interplay of political and social factors on national development with commitment and detachment.

  • - An Anthology of Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought
     
    82,00 €

    This reader presents an understanding of Caribbean feminist scholarship. The essays deal with diverse topics including the role of women in Caribbean art; the development of "women's history" and "gendered history"; the representation of masculinity in Caribbean feminist thought; and more.

  • - Blacks in Rebellion
    von Richard Hart
    54,00 €

    A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamaican rebels forced the British government to reset the agenda for emancipation and the slaves gained their freedom sooner than anticipated.

  • - The Progress of Her People at Home and Abroad, and How Those in British Guiana May Improve Themselves
     
    38,00 €

    This reissue of an 1894 pamphlet celebrates Joseph Ruhomon as the first Indian intellectual in British Guiana, now Guyana. He wrote at a time, Seecharan notes, "when self-deprecation was an instinct...and the construction of this essay was an admirable accomplishment".

  • - Ruth Nita Barrow - Social Change and International Development
     
    52,00 €

    Dame Nita Barrow was a lifelong champion of justice, community service and human rights. This volume examines how this extraordinary Caribbean woman developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and development policy on regional, national and international levels.

  • von University Of The West Indies, Jamaica) Bryan, Patrick (Senior Lecturer in History & usw.
    43,00 €

    A description of the period in Jamaica's history that follows the abolition of slavery, up to the introduction of universal adult suffrage. The author analyzes the social, intellectual and political history of the era, including health, law, labour, and the ideas of the black intelligentsia.

  • - Culture, Socialization, and Gender Identity in Some Caribbean Communities
    von Barry Chevannes
    52,00 €

    This is a study of the processes by which male children are socialized in the Caribbean, against the backdrop of growing concern among educators, social workers and the general public that Caribbean males are becoming increasingly marginalized. It is based on qualitative research.

  • - Essays on Church History
     
    42,00 €

    This is a collection of essays on the history of Christianity and the role of the Church in the processes of colonization and decolonization in the Caribbean. They look at the relationships that existed among slavery, colonialism and Catholicism.

  • - A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago 1834-1939
    von Carl Campbell
    53,00 €

    Argues that in content and orientation islands' educational system during colonial period was geared more to the metropole than to the local situation. Uses career and initiatives of J.O. Cutteridge, British educational official in Trinidad, to portray the occasional absurdity of the system. Highlights religious bodies' meaningful role in building schools and in other educational activities. Concludes that despite problems, education did provide a mechanism for upward social mobility and for overcoming barriers imposed by race, class, or ethnicity. Includes list of island scholars from late-19th century through 1939.

  • - Race, Class and Social Domination
    von Charles W. Mills
    59,00 €

    Offers a collection of articles that explores the common themes of race and class in the Caribbean and overcoming social domination. This title considers abstract political theory (Marxism and critical and race theory) and focuses on specific Caribbean issues and events such as the portrayals of the Jamaican left.

  • von William W. Lawrence
    40,00 €

    Many viable businesses in Jamaica are in need of turnaround from losses and financial distress. This book provides solutions from a new lens - a simple, yet highly effective set of profit pathways developed from a sharp review of international literature and exploration of the business models of Jamaican firms.

  • - The Oral-Scribal Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction
    von Carol Bailey
    55,00 €

    Explores the impact of orature-performance on Caribbean prose fiction. Arguing that orature-performance is the structuring device for many contemporary novels and short stories, this work extends the critical consensus that Caribbean oral modes infuse all genres of literature from the region.

  • - Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
     
    60,00 €

    The study of business history as a distinct discipline is well established in many places but relatively neglected in the anglophone Caribbean. West Indian Business History: Essays in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship locates the regional history of business within the scope of Caribbean/Atlantic world economic history, placing it within the broader context of business history. As well as providing the foundation text for courses in West Indian business history, this volume is valuable to students of other areas of Caribbean history, wherever they may be enrolled, and also to Caribbean business studies students. The essays included in this collection bring together a selection of work in West Indian business history, some of them first published several decades ago. The essays are intended to provide an introduction to the state of the field and illustrate the ways in which business history connects with other themes in Caribbean history. They offer examples of the varieties of ways in which business history can be researched and written, and of the range of subjects that can be studied.

  • - New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen
     
    42,00 €

    The publication of Talking Words has been designed to coincide with that of Pak's Britannica: Articles by and interviews with David Dabydeen, and provides the reader with a complimentary set of essays that are focused exclusively on Dabyeen's fictional output.

  • - Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen
     
    42,00 €

    This is the first book to be devoted solely to David Dabydeen's academic works, bringing together the best of his output from the last twenty-five years with a series of interviews. Collectively, they provide the reader with a unique insight into the mind of this acclaimed scholar.

  • von Serick Boyd
    63,00 €

    Traces the historical origins and evolution of the variety of Caribbean economic institutions and examines the effect of policy regime on economic performance, using theoretical economic analysis and several econometric techniques, which are explained in detail. It concludes that better economic performance has benefited from an embedded tradition of conservative central banking, either hardwired, as in the case of a currency board, or through discretionary policies.

  • - A History of Economic Interests and Subversions, 1830-1962
    von Kelvin Singh
    75,00 €

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.

  • - Christianization and Emancipation in Jamaica
    von Shirley Gordon
    52,00 €

    A comprehensive historical study that describes the varied and various encounters of the Jamaican people with Christianity in the thirty years following emancipation as enslaved peoples under British colonialism. An excellent and resourceful guide for students of history and theology in particular and post-emancipation Caribbean studies in general.

  • - West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
    von Olive Senior
    57,00 €

    The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850s who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the islands economically, socially and politically well into the twentieth century. West Indians provided the bulk of the workforce for the construction of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal, and between 1850 and 1914 untold numbers sacrificed their lives, limbs and mental faculties to the Panama project. Many West Indians remained as settlers, their descendants now citizens of Panama; many returned home with enough of a nest egg to better themselves; and others launched themselves elsewhere in the Americas as work beckoned. Senior tells the compelling story of the West Indian rite of passage of "going to Panama" and captures the complexities behind the iconic "Colón Man". Drawing on official records, contemporary newspapers, journals and books, songs, sayings, and literature, and the words of the participants themselves, Senior answers the questions of who went to Panama, how and why; she describes the work they did there, the conditions under which they lived, and the impact on their homelands when they returned or on the host societies when they stayed. Many books have shown how the "conquest" of the Isthmus of Panama by land and sea revolutionized the modern world. Dying to Better Themselves distinguishes itself by exploring how the myriad individuals touched by the construction of the railroad and the canal changed their Caribbean world as well.

  • - A Story of Jamaican Cultural Renaissance
    von Emily Zobel Marshall
    51,00 €

  • - A Study of the Families in Three Selected Communities of Jamaica
    von Edith Clarke
    37,00 €

    This expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, My Mother Who Fathered Me includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford.

  • - Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008
    von Terrence W. Farrell
    50,00 €

  • - The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
    von Jerome S. Handler & Kenneth M. Bilby
    46,00 €

  • - Bound Coolie Radical in British Guiana 1894-1901
    von Clem Seecharan
    53,00 €

    Clem Seecharan has written a useful documentary history of Bechu, the first Indian to testify before the Royal Commission in 1897.Now who was this Bechu? He was, in Seecharan's words, "an indefatigable gadfly," who in letters to the local press revealed the conditions of Indian indentureship: poor wages, sexual exploitation of women by overseers and managers, and the virtual impossibility for Indians to obtain justice because of the collusion between colonial authorities and the planters. This knowledge we owe to economic historian Alan Adamson who "discovered" Bechu in the 1960s. Yet the man himself remained somewhat of a mystery, something Bechu himself seems to have cultivated. Seecharan has now filled a number of lacunae in our understanding with this two-part volume. The first section focuses on Bechu and the British Guianese environment in the late nineteenth century, while the second part includes letters and memoranda by Bechu (and reactions to them by local opponents).

  • - The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica
    von David Buisseret
    53,00 €

    This remarkable description of Jamaica in the 1680s was written by a contemporary English observer, John Taylor, who spent some months on the island. He offers an image of the island before the general spread of sugar cultivation, citing some creatures now extinct n Jamaica; he also makes many suggestions about the medical use of natural products.

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