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Jamaican History

Books on: (jamaica or jamaican) and history

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Renewing Democracy into the Millennium: The Jamaican Experience in Perspective

Book by Trevor Munroe; University of the West Indies, 1999

Subjects:

Democracy--Jamaica, Elections--Jamaica, Jamaica--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...A number of agencies of the Jamaican state and civil society were...not so much at the end of history as at the end of geography...reinforced by the specifics of the Jamaican experience of the 1990s. Here...that significant sections of Jamaican people had become increasingly...
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Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing

Book by Arvilla Payne-Jackson, Mervyn C. Alleyne; University Press of the West Indies, 2004

Subjects:

Traditional Medicine--Jamaica

Collections: Entire Library

This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaican. The authors analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions ...
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This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaican. The authors analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions of common healing practices and Jamaica's biodiversity, in both flora and in fauna. As is the case with other aspects of Jamaican traditional culture, Jamaican folk medicine is largely misunderstood and subject to negative pejorative attitudes. This comprehensive study challenges some of the myths and misinformation. Particular attention is paid to cultural transference from Africa and the use of herbals in African-Jamaican religions. The comprehensive book is of academic value to teachers, students and researchers, and can also aid practitioners and policy makers in the field of health and healing. The work has an appendix and glossary as well as a detailed bibliography.
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Historical Foundations of Jamaican Law

Book by Raphael Codlin; Canoe Press, 2003

Subjects:

Jamaica--Colonial Influence, Law Reports, Digests, Etc--Jamaica, Law--Jamaica--History

Collections: Entire Library

...foundations of Jamaican law / Raphael Codlin...Law Jamaica History. 2. Jamaica Parliament...produce a short Jamaican legal history, the author considered...form the basis of Jamaican legislation. However...quick look at the history of Parliament in...
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Up the down Escalator: Development and the International Economy: a Jamaican Case Study

Book by Michael Manley; Howard University, 1987

Subjects:

Economic Development, Jamaica--Economic Conditions, Jamaica--Economic Policy

Collections: Entire Library

...International Economy A JAMAICAN CASE STUDY Michael...in the same colonial history and must now survive...1975 to 1980. The Jamaican case will be used to...recent times. Indeed, Jamaicans have pinned their hopes...throughout recorded history, aluminum, which is...
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Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834

Book by Mary Turner; University of the West Indies Press, 1998

Subjects:

Jamaica--Race Relations, Missionaries--Jamaica--History, Race Relations--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Slavery--Jamaica

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

On 27 December 1831 a fire on Kensington Estate in St James, Jamaica, signalled the start of one of the largest slave revolts in the Caribbean. Its leaders were also leaders in the mission churches and the independent sects, and their followers expected the missionaries to support them in their bid ...
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On 27 December 1831 a fire on Kensington Estate in St James, Jamaica, signalled the start of one of the largest slave revolts in the Caribbean. Its leaders were also leaders in the mission churches and the independent sects, and their followers expected the missionaries to support them in their bid for wage work and free status. The missionaries, however, sent to save souls from sins in the face of planter hostility, were explicitly committed to neutrality on the slavery issue. This book traces the response of all classes in Jamaican society to mission work, focusing in particular on the dynamic interplay between slaves and missionaries.
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Journal Articles on: (jamaica or jamaican) and history

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Horace Russell, the Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church: Jamaican Baptist Mission to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century

Journal article by Neville Callam; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 55, 2003

Subjects:

The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church: Jamaican Baptist Mission to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...West Indian Church: Jamaican Baptist Mission to West...growing interest in the history of Christianity in Africa...South-South mission and the history of Christian mission...the approaches used by Jamaica Baptist churches as...of the way in which Jamaican Creoles alternated between...influences in the work of the Jamaican anti-slavery forces...
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Jamaican Hands across the Atlantic

Journal article by Daniel Miller; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...host countries. In particular, Jamaicans in the US have been pressured...circumstances--e.g. family income and history within Jamaica--appear to be...lifelong association with oral history and Bauers empathy with her Jamaican origins. As a result the individuals...
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Words, Sounds, and Power in Jamaican Rastafari

Journal article by Kasey Qynn Dolin; MACLAS Latin American Essays, 2001

Subjects:

Garvey, Marcus, Jamaica--Religious aspects, Rastafarianism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of working-class Jamaicans improved little...economic and social history began in 1945...brief overview of Jamaican history, the plight of...from non-Rasta Jamaicans. The level of distaste...Jamaica. In the history of Jamaica section...
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Remembering Kojo: History, Music, and Gender in the January Sixth Celebration of the Jamaican Accompong Maroons

Journal article by Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje; Black Music Research Journal, 1998

Subjects:

Autonomy--Social aspects, Ethnic groups--Jamaica, Group identity--Jamaica, Jamaica--Music, Maroons--Music

Collections: History, Entire Library

...REMEMBERING KOJO: HISTORY, MUSIC, AND GENDER...CELEBRATION OF THE JAMAICAN ACCOMPONG MAROONS...relationship with the Jamaican government and...Since early history, Maroon women have...5.) Writers on Jamaican history refer to the Akans...
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"Liberated in the Spirit": Telling the Lives of Jamaican Women in a Pentecostal/Revivalist Church

Journal article by Sharon Chambers-Gordon; Women and Language, Vol. 24, 2001

Subjects:

Jamaica--Social aspects, Pentecostalism--Social aspects, Women and religion--Jamaica, Women in church work--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Telling the lives of Jamaican women in a Pentecostal...Abstract: The history of Afro-Jamaican women is a history of survival under the...poor black women in Jamaican society. I provide a brief history of the Pentecostal movement...

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Magazine Articles on: (jamaica or jamaican) and history

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Behind a Manley Victory in Jamaica

Magazine article by Bernard D. Headley; Monthly Review, Vol. 38, February 1987

Subjects:

Jamaica Labor Party--Political activity, Jamaica--Political aspects, Jamaican foreign relations--United States, Manley, Michael--Political activity, People's National Party (Jamaica)--Political activity, Seaga, Edward--Political activity, United States, United States foreign relations--Jamaica

Collections: Entire Library

...repeated devaluations of the Jamaican dollar only bred further hardships...election victory in our political history, a PNP lead over the JLP re-emerged...the move was approved by most Jamaicans --not so much because they...he would be popular with the Jamaican people. Two months after his...
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Mr. Seaga's Jamaica: An Inside Look

Magazine article by Bernard D. Headley; Monthly Review, Vol. 37, September 1985

Subjects:

Economic policy--Jamaica, Jamaica--Political aspects, Jamaican foreign relations--United States, Seaga, Edward--Political activity, United States, United States foreign relations--Jamaica

Collections: Entire Library

...Curtain and "Birth Control. "Haitianization As the returning Jamaican moves around this troubled land he/she is forced to contemplate...region, now about to join the country that, despite its proud history of resistance to European imperialism, is now, under the repressive...
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Promoting Literacy in Jamaican Schools

Magazine article by Janet Towell; Reading Today, Vol. 18, October 2000

Subjects:

Children's books--Jamaica, Education--Jamaica, International Reading Association--Finance, Jamaica--Education, Literacy programs--Finance

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...prayer. I was very moved by the formality and sincerity of these Jamaican teachers. My workshop focused on phonics and decoding, a topic...and 40 to 50 students in every class. Charts and pictures of history facts (related to Jamaica, Africa, and the Caribbean) and language...
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God Save Jamaica, and "Iraq"

Magazine article by Stella Orakwue; New African, March 2008

Subjects:

Broadcasting industry--Collections and collecting, Iraq War, 2003-, Jamaica--Social aspects, Sound recording libraries--Appreciation, Sound recording libraries--Investigations

Collections: Entire Library

...trying to empathise with the Jamaicans. Im feeling it. Im really feeling...cultural heritage of music history, archival recordings, rare...about which we so often rage. "Jamaicans speak often about their history and culture and declare monuments...
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Songs of Jamaica: Sung in the Present and Future Tenses

Magazine article by Hank Chase; American Visions, Vol. 13, August 1998

Subjects:

Jamaica--Travel, Travel--Jamaica

Collections: Entire Library

...suppress Tackys Rebellion, Jamaicas most serious slave revolt...countrys capital does have a history museum of sorts--one celebrating...Museum owes nothing to the Jamaican government, having been established...Kings House, you will find the Jamaican Peoples Museum of Craft and...text interpreting the social history and class distinctions of...

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Newspaper Articles on: (jamaica or jamaican) and history

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Jamaican Joy: Artists Exhibit Pride in Heritage

Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, August 14, 1999

Subjects:

Jamaica

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the pieces here really give the viewer an insight into how Jamaicans think," he says. "Many of us are influenced by Christianity...Director Marc Zuver. "We are the first museum in American art history which is entirely run and founded by artists who are scholars...
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TRUANTS GET Pounds 5,000 TRIP TO CARIBBEAN; Three-Week Jamaica Visit Is Paid for by European Grant

Newspaper article by Tom Worden; Sunday Mirror (London, England), October 17, 1999

Subjects:

Jamaica

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Worden TROUBLESOME pupils with a history of truancy and bad behaviour are being...their ways. The seven teenagers fly to Jamaica today on a pounds 5,000 visit funded...better after seeing how much better Jamaican pupils perform despite their poorly...have to get involved and study at the Jamaican schools, talking to people to gain different...
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Answering Anti-Americanism; Envoy Challenges Jamaican Elites' Love-Hate Relationship with U.S

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 2, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to keep its economy afloat. Not surprisingly, most ordinary Jamaicans like Americans and dream of obtaining U.S. tourist visas or...As for kooky, Sultana Afroz, a lecturer in Middle East history at the University of the West Indies, suggested at a public...
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Religion New Jamaican Tourism Lure; Fun in the Son Gospel Festival Joins Fun in Sun

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 25, 2006

Subjects:

Festivals--Religious aspects, Sales promotions--Religious aspects, Tourism promotion--Religious aspects, Tourism--Religious aspects, Travel industry--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...denominations you see in other countries," said Mr. Smith, the Jamaican Council of Churches former president. The island is also marketing...Kodesh Shaare Shalom in Kingston is a synagogue with a 350-year history. It was rebuilt in 1912. About 200 Jews live in Jamaica, but...
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Culture Theatre: The Original Gang Show; A Classic Jamaican Gangster Film from the 1970s Has Been Reborn as a Hit Stage Musical. Terry Grimley Looks at the Second Coming of the Harder They Come

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Original Gang Show; A Classic Jamaican Gangster Film from the 1970s...this run reflects the on-off history of a proposed national tour...people aware of reggae and Jamaican culture in general. Right from...soundtrack. And although its very Jamaican its a kind of Robin Hood story...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (jamaica or jamaican) and history

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Jamaica

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...share of the national income than agriculture. Remittances from Jamaicans working abroad are also a major source of income. The United...Administratively, the country is divided into 14 parishes. History History to Independence Sighted by Christopher Columbus...
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Garvey, Marcus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...American proponent of black nationalism, b. Jamaica. At the age of 14, Garvey went to work...London he became interested in African history and black nationalism. His concern for...entered jail in 1925 and was deported to Jamaica two years later. From this time on his...
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Walcott, Derek

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Castries, St. Lucia, grad. Univ. College of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1954. His grandfathers were both white, one of English, the...the classical and avant-garde, he writes eloquently of the history, landscape, everyday life, and multiracial peoples of the islands...
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Parker, Sir Hyde

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...knighted in 1779. He later held commands in the Mediterranean, Jamaica, and the North Sea in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...Parkers signal to cease fighting is a famous incident in naval history. Nelson soon replaced Parker. ____________________ The Columbia...
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Smollett, Tobias George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...following year. In 1744 he returned to London with his wife, a Jamaican heiress, practiced as a surgeon for a time, and then began...translating, and compiling. His other works include a popular History of England (1757), an entertaining but splenetic Travels...

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