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This drama trilogy shows the story of the Calypso art form over four decades of social and artistic change, 1930-1970
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The idea of universal rights is often understood as a product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean.
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In this collection the author examines the financial and development challenges facing Caribbean countries - particularly those in the ECCU - and proposes solutions to many of the issues raised.
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The publication of A Nation Imagined falls squarely within the West Indies Cricket Board's celebrations of 75 years of West Indies' entry into Test cricket.
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The Strength of a Participatory Approach Edited by Juliet Melville and Eleanor Wint A collection of articles that examine the characteristics of poverty in the Caribbean.
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When West Indian slaves were emancipated in the 1980s the planters sought to replace them with Indian immigrant labour. Indian immigrant labourers began to arrive on a large scale in 1845 and continued until 1917.
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This work traces the journey of the Jamaican people through different stages of the colonial experience up to Adult Suffrage, independence and post-colonial statehood into the Cold War to contemporary globalization.
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The story of the Atlantic slave trade has always been imperial, recorded and delivered through Europeans. In this path-breaking work, the story of the slave trade is told from the African perspective.
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Atlantic Interactions is written specifically to provide core source material for CAPE History; more particularly for Unit II, The Atlantic World and Global Interactions. The text works in tandem with the CAPE history syllabus supplying valuable information that is useful to both teachers and students alike.
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Edited by Brian Moore and Swithin Wilmot Before and After 1865 provides a discussion and exploration of the interlinked themes of education, politics and regionalism.
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This book brings together a selection of speeches delivered by Said Musa since becoming Prime Minister, with the exception of the speech made in his capacity as Foreign Minister and delivered to the United Nations General Assembly.
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In this thought-provoking collection of essays, anthropologist Barry Chevannes carefully exposes the underlying ideas and values that have given and are giving shape to social life in Jamaica and the Caribbean region in general.
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Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage.
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In recent years, Caribbean historians have moved beyond the traditional interpretation of the Region's historical experience leading to a more dynamic and accurate re-creation of events and processes.
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First published in a newspaper in Jamaica in 1911, this ‘forgotten' novel has been reconstructed from manuscript sources and the newspaper version.
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Eric Williams's Capitalism & Slavery became the foundation for many future studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution
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A magical collection of poems for children, colourfully illustrated by children of the Caribbean. Influenced by her childhood memories of this enchanting tropical region, the author captures the everyday sights and sounds of the people and life of the Caribbean.
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Caribbean Charisma analyses the political successes of several Caribbean leaders going back to the early days of political decolonisation (1960s).
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This latest edition complete with a new introduction, a modern design and an exciting full-colour cover, will please Rita Springer fans and win her new ones.
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In the decade that elapsed since Caribbean Currents was first published, there have been a number of dramatic developments in Caribbean music, from the flowering of reggaeton and timba to the mainstreaming of Domincan bachata, as well as the emergence of a new generation of performers.
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This companion volume to Caribbean Slavey in the Atlantic World focusses on the period immediately after emancipation. It examines the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean.
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Pan African Revolutionary Edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis
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Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall. Stuart Hall, in whose honor this volume is compiled, was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and has nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals.
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This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic.
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This is the first text for undergraduate students which presents in a comprehensive collection the works of Caribbean scholars in the form of an indigenous sociology.
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This is the third volume in the Caribbean Tourism series. The book places specialty tourism into perspective by examining community and ecotourism; heritage and cultural tourism; and events and sports tourism.
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For the majority of countries of the Caribbean, tourism has become the most important source of income and the largest earner of foreign exchange.
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Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economies of the small developing states of the Caribbean.
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First published in 1946, one year after the Spanish original Biografa del Caribe, Germa¡n Arciniegas' Caribbean: Sea of the New World has been described as a breathtaking and magisterial work, encompassing four centuries of history of the Caribbean basin in its broad sweep.
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This anthology explores Rastafari religion, culture and politics in Jamaica and the African diaspora. The movement which began in the 1930s, today has close to a million adherents.
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Chattel House Blues is an account of the struggles of Black Barbadians in the 20th century to secure a place within an island their labour had built as a monument to British colonialism.
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Coastal Resource Management in the Wider Caribbean presents an alternative look at existing coastal management initiatives in the Caribbean, focusing on the need to pay more attention to the local community.
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Speeches by Hon Dr. Denzil L. Douglas Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis The First Two Terms Edited and Introduced by Ken Tilley.
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This path-breaking and comprehensive work presents insight on crime-related problems as well as dimensions of crime and criminology.
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In Criminal Practice and Procedure, George Belnavis provides a virtual step by step guide to the rules governing procedures in Magistrates Courts.
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe.
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One of the most innovative companies to have achieved world acclaim in the last half of the twentieth century, the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica blends the lore, music and dance traditions of Jamaica, the wider Caribbean, and the American South with both Modern and European classical ballet forms. This richly illustrated history, as sequel to the earlier Dance Jamaica - Cultural Definition and Artistic Discovery, celebrates the Company's first 46 years.
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This unique anthology is made up of translations of creative works by hispanophone women of African descent including poetry, essays, short stories, excerpts of novels and personal narratives.
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Authors: KIRK MEIGHOO / PETER JAMADAR
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The year 2006 marks the bicentenary of the arrival of the Chinese in Trinidad. Their presence has been an encounter of opposites. On the one hand was the arrival of men from the oldest continuous civilization in the world and on the other the receiving land was one of the New World's newest outposts.
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The contributors to this volume are Rex Nettleford; Alister McIntyre; Norman GIrvan; Lloyd Best; Kari Levitt; Marius St. Rose; Clive Thomas; Alan Blinder; Joseph Stiglitz; and Gerald Meier.
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic is mankind's worst nightmare. Whilst a cure for the disease continues to elude scientists, the number of HIV/AIDS cases continues to increase. Education becomes the key to curtailing the spread of the disease.
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Since the achievement of adult suffrage in 1944, Jamaican democracy has remained resilient. Fifteen general elections have been held; the results have been accepted by the contending parties and the democratic process has survived.
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Emerging Caribbean presents a unique tableau of the Caribbean Basin today, a geography that is both systematic and synthetic, engaging with the essential elements of its history.
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Emerging Caribbean presents a unique tableau of the Caribbean Basin today, a geography that is both systematic and synthetic, engaging with the essential elements of its history.
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the extensive literature on the family, household and conjugal unions in the Caribbean. It is constructed around six themes prominent in Caribbean family studies, namely
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This book presents the first comprehensive look at the genesis and development of literature and a literary consciousness among IndoTrinidadians.
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A Biography is the first book-length biography of Frank Collymore
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Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora was born out of the June 2006 conference "Caribbean Migration: Forced and Free".
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Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective is an edited collection of papers delivered at the University of the West Indies Mona Academic conference in 2007, marking the bicentenary of the abolition of the British Transatlantic Trade in Africans for enslavement.
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The wisdom, lore and teachings of the people of 'old' Jamaica are captured in a hundred and one poems in this first collection by Easton Lee.
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provides a historical descriptive and analytical account of elections and election processes in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the six decades since the introduction of Universal Adult Suffrage in the region.
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Globalisation, Diaspora and Caribbean Popular Culture chronicles the emergence and metamorphosis across centuries, of a variety of Caribbean expressions, and documents the restructuring of social relations through expressive forms.
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Spanish Town is an old town. As Jamaica's capital for nearly 350 years and subsequently as a major urban centre, its streets and squares witnessed key political and social transitions.
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This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean.
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Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied "the land of calypso."
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This book sets out for the general reader and student alike the peculiar features of the post emancipation condition of the formerly enslaved community in Barbados.
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In Guyana 1838-1985: Ethnicity, Class and Gender, author Steve Garner reassesses Guyana's history in the context of ethnicity and its impact on nation building in the post colonial era.
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HIV-AIDS and Social Work Practice in the Caribbean demonstrates how social workers, working alongside heath care professionals can contribute to the multi-disciplinary intervention in the fight against HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean using the lived experiences of person affected by HIV-AIDS.
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The wealth of the Caribbean regions is its people. However, in the age of borderless environments, the Caribbean, with its small states and weak economies has become even more vulnerable.
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I Want to Disturb My Neighbour is a collection of papers that reflect the author's work over the past ten years in the areas of conquest, slavery, decolonialization and other issues.
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This collection of 21 papers covers aspects of the Caribbean experience from slavery through to the post-independence period.
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Spanning more than a decade of work, In Trinidad is an evocative and enthralling collection
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Industrial Relations Law and Practice in Jamaica is handbook written primarily for persons involved in the day to day administration of employer-employee relations in both the private and public sectors.
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Perspectives of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Commonwealth Caribbean Countries 1963-2002 (Second Edition)
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This is an introductory text for students of Caribbean politics at the undergraduate level. The text is structured around a number of core issues which are used to present an analysis of Caribbean politics. These issue areas include:
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Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic is a unique account of a type of transnational family, which may become increasingly typical in the new era of a globalized world economy and communication.
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Kingston wrestles with the legacies of its colonial past, a tradition of political conflict and the occasional outburst of modern-day turf rivalry.
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This book presents an alternative look at existing coastal management initiatives in the Caribbean, focusing on the need to pay more attention to the local community.
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Livestock, Sugar and Slavery examines the evolution and expansion of the pen-keeping industry, the role and status of the pen-keepers and the experiences of the enslaved labourers on pens, a virtually unexplored area of Caribbean history.
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The idea that the Caribbean could be devolving downward in wealth, function and sovereignty has become a recurrent theme in both academic and popular literature.
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A most interesting and unusual anthology, Lunchtime Medley: Writings on West Indian Cricket, brings together a range of pieces related to West Indian cricket.
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West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively.
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This collection of folk songs draws from the wealth of Jamaica's folk music-the music of the Jamaican people which with its colourful range of forms reflects the way of life of individuals or entire communities.
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In the early 1990s governments in the Caribbean became alarmed about the possible negative consequences of globalization on the development of the region, in particular the threat of marginalization from world markets and the erosion of good governance.
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Inspired by CLR James's masterpiece Beyond a Boundary, Clem Seecharan in this book explores the role of that quintessential imperial game - cricket, and education in the shaping of identity in the former British West Indies from the latter years of slavery to 1900.
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A touching memoir of love & loss, grief & guilt and Rosie's struggle to overcome the stigma and discrimination because of her HIV status.
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Non-Contentious Probate Practice in the English Speaking Caribbean is widely acclaimed by students and practitioners as an indispensable guide to probate practice and procedure in the Caribbean.
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The stories included in this volume are but pieces of Jamaica's very rich past. The book brings together interesting people events from the nation's past to the general public.
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For more than 25 years, Denis Williams, one of Guyana's most accomplished scholars, traveled one end of the country to another conducting surveys and excavations.
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Drawing on legislation that has developed from international agreements attempting to harmonize different systems of law and also on case law from across the Commonwealth Caribbean
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Since its first publication in 1963, Gordon Lewis's Puerto Rico has established itself and even today remains the definitive book on the subject.
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In his seminal work The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820, Kamau Brathwaite articulated a clear intellectual model of the process of cultural change that defines and distinguishes Creole Societies.
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Since the emergence of the Rastafari movement of Jamaica in the 1930s, social sciences and theology have made numerous efforts to categorize it.
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For over 20 years, the developing world has been adjusting to the agendas of the IMF and the World Bank. In the 1990s Structural Adjustment Programmes were repackaged and marketed as the coming of the golden age of globalisation, promising benefits to countries that adopt neo-liberal policies.
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Reggae Explosion: The Story of Jamaican Music, produced in an illustrated coffee table format, charts the course of this extraordinary cultural revolution, from the 'sound systems' of the 1950s, through ska and dub, to the rise of Bob Marley
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Research Methods for Inexperienced Researchers: Guidelines for Investigating the Social World demystifies the research process for students, teachers and numbers of the public and private sectors and just about anyone needing to access and analyse information.
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Revisiting the Transatlantic Triangle succeeds both methodologically and empirically in challenging some basic misinterpretations perpetuated in the Commonwealth historiography, and examines the nature and scope of the process of constitutional devolution in the Eastern Caribbean.
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Social and cultural historian, political analyst, trade union educator, artist, expert on development and cultural dynamics, man of letters these represent only a few of the areas of expertise of Rex Nettleford, one of the Caribbean's finest scholars.
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There is no place like Jamaica. Often described as an island paradise, the sights and sounds, the flora and fauna, the sun, sand and sea, the mountains and the music, all entice visitors and enthrall residents. But far beyond all of that, the most unique quality of Jamaica is its people.
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Proceeding from the premise that gender influences sexuality and sexual behaviour, Sex, Power and Taboo provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how gender affects HIV risk and prevention.
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Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean context by exploring risks, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender.
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Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups.
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Social Protection Policy in the Caribbean discusses social vulnerability and the major instruments developed to address this vulnerability.
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Sociology for the Caribbean Students is an introduction to the field of Sociology for students pursuing the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). In this new combined edition of Sociology for Caribbean Students:
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Sociology for Caribbean Students: Development and Social Change has been written specifically to satisfy the syllabus requirements of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) and in particular the module Development and Social Change.
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Sociology for Caribbean Students: Development and Social Change has been written specifically to satisfy the syllabus requirements of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) and in particular the module Development and Social Change.
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Soul Dance captures the voice of every Jamaican, as well as their thoughts and dreams. Taken from writings spanning Jean Lowrie-Chin's 30-year career, the pieces reflect the events that uplift, as well as burden, Jamaican society.
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In 1494, Christopher Columbus' exploratory travels on behalf of the King and Queen of Spain brought him to the island of Jamaica. His arrival represented the beginning of the Spanish period in Jamaica's history which ended with the English capture of the island in 1655.
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St. Kitts and Nevis: A Portrait of a Nation Celebrating 25 Years of Independence charts the evolution of a young nation state from a colony to an independent nation. Dr. Timothy Harris reveals, as only an insider could, the many pitfalls and triumphs experienced during this journey.
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This is the first book on the Suriname economy, which presents a comprehensive survey of the country\'s economic policies and performances in recent years and its main challenges ahead.
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In many parts of the world there are situations where the majority of the people speak a vernacular with which it coexists but nevertheless share the majority of a common vocabulary.
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For more than a century Caribbean intellectuals have created a substantial body of work expressing their ideas about culture, identity and society in the region, ideas that have contributed to the development of a distinctive Caribbean civilisation.
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Functional Cooperation has been recognized as vital to the Caribbean Regional Integration Movement. The adoption of a joint approach to deal with common problems is arguably the only way CARICOM countries will survive in the new international dispensation of globalization.
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The Caribbean Court of Justice: Enchancing the Law of International Organisations considers the role the CCJ will have in strengthening the development of international law.
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What do we really know about the impending Caribbean Court of Justice? The vexed issue of the Court's establishment has been the subject of much debate but how much of this debate is informed by the facts?
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The Caribbean Novel in English provides a general introduction to the works of the most outstanding writers of the anglophone Caribbean from the 1930s to the present.
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In a panoramic survey, Professor Benn succeeds in systematizing for the first time, the elements that may be said to constitute the intellectual tradition of the Caribbean from the end of the 18th century to the present.
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The Morant Bay Rebellion, otherwise known as the ‘Native Baptist War’ represents an important watershed in Jamaican history.
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There has been very little public intellectual discourse in the Commonwealth Caribbean on one of the most vexing issues of the criminal justice system: the retention of the death penalty as a punishment.
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This book is a study in depth of a colonial plantation' during 50 critical years of slavery in the Caribbean. As the title suggests however, it is not concerned with slavery exclusively, but with a social entity of which slavery was a significant part.
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The best health care is good self-care. This book promotes a lifelong commitment to healthy eating. The over 200 recipes, collected from across the Caribbean are preceded by a section of guidelines to healthy eating.
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Paintings by Barrington Watson, Foreword by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
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Anthony J. Payne, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of several books on Caribbean politics and international relations.
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This interpretation of labour organisations and politics of the working people of the British Caribbean relates their struggle to important national, regional and global factors.
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This book presents a unique historical sociology of the teaching profession from the Age of Religion to the 19th century era of nation-states.
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In this new edition, Ms. Donaldson captures the flavour of Jamaica with a sumptuous collection of over 200 traditional and popular recipes.
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When 14 year-old Natasha discovers that her best friend Jasmine has contracted AIDS she is devastated and confused. She cannot understand how someone so young and innocent could have contracted such a deadly disease until her thoughts turn toward Jasmine's popular boyfriend, Mike.
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In this highly acclaimed general history of Jamaica, Philip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett succeed in using history, told from below, as a vehicle to bury colonial stereotypes by placing African-Jamaicans as the makers of their history and not the victims.
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The World’s Finest traces the early history of coffee and takes readers through the history of coffee planting in colonial Jamaica to modern day growing and harvesting techniques.
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Woodville Marshall introduces this pamphlet by Henry James Ross, a Grenadian planter, published originally in 1842. Sharecropping has been a persisting but little examined feature of plantation agriculture in the Caribbean for nearly two centuries.
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Between 1492 and 1870, some 15 million enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas. This trade was the largest human migration in recorded history.
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A Historical and Contemporary Analysis, Wendell Mottley With a foreword by Charles Rangel
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The story of the Maroons' successful fight for freedom has intrigued and inspired generations of scholars and remains a powerful symbol of resistance to oppression throughout the African Diaspora.
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Designed to enhance readers' comprehension and appreciation of the traditions, influences and common themes underlying the many differences within this complex region, Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean ranges in coverage from history to economics and politics, from the environment to ethnicity, from religion to the Caribbean Diaspora.
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In the first published account of the massive US covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias and racism.
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Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities is a multi-faceted collection of essays that unfolds the charge of the Caribbean writer to represent a region with a complicated history and an even more complex future.
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This book is intended as a self study text for students taking language courses in the first year of university but it can also be used as a text by students preparing for the Certificate of Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in Communications Studies.
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