A Concise History Of Jamaica
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Author | : Kenneth Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108472257 |
An authoritative social, economic, political, and cultural history of Jamaica.
Author | : B. W. Higman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108480985 |
A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.
Author | : Clinton Vane de Brosse Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Jamaica |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thibault Ehrengardt |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This book goes from the arrival of Columbus, to the taverns of Port Royal, to the runaway slaves who defeated the English to the slaves' rebellions and everyday life.
Author | : B. W. Higman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789766401139 |
First published in 1988, this volume contains a representative sample of the large collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. It explores the diversity of agricultural activity on the island and the changing patterns of land use during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author | : James Knight |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813945577 |
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.
Author | : James Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A concise and authoritative history of the entire region covering the larger nations of the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the smaller islands of the Eastern Caribbean and the French, British, and Dutch territories.
Author | : Ian Thomson |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1568586663 |
Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike. Ian Thomson's brave book explores a country of lost promise, where America's hunger for drugs fuels a dependent economy and shadowy politics. The lauded birthplace of reggae and Bob Marley, Jamaica is now sunk in corruption and hopelessness. A synthesis of vital history and unflinching reportage, The Dead Yard is "a fascinating account of a beautiful, treacherous country" (Irish Times).
Author | : Olive Senior |
Publisher | : Twin Guinep Limited |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Stuart Macintyre |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521601016 |
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.