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Jamaican History

Books on: jamaica history

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Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture

Book by Kathleen E. A. Monteith, Glen Richards; University of the West Indies Press, 2002

Subjects:

Jamaica--Civilization, Jamaica--Economic Conditions--19th Century, Jamaica--History, Jamaica--History--Sources, Labor Movement--Jamaica--History, Nationalism--Jamaica

Collections: History, Entire Library

...bibliographical references. ISBN: 976-640-108-X 1. Jamaica - History. 2. Jamaica - History - Sources. 3. Jamaica - Civilization. 4. Jamaica...conditions - 19th century. 5. Labour movement Jamaica - History. 6. Nationalism - Jamaica. I. Monteith, Kathleen...
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A History of Jamaica from Its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1872: Including an Account of Its Trade and Agriculture; Sketches of the Manners, Habits, and Customs of All Classes of Its Inhabitants; and a Narrative of the Progress of Religion and Education in the Island

Book by W. J. Gardner; Frank Cass, 1971

Subjects:

Jamaica--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...INDIAN STUDIES No. 17 A HISTORY OF JAMAICA CASS LIBRARY OF WEST INDIAN...No. 12. Edward Long The History of Jamaica, or General Survey of the Antient...edition of Rev. W.J. Gardners "History of Jamaica," it will probably interest...
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Neither Led nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920

Book by Brian L. Moore, Michele A. Johnson; University Press of the West Indies, 2004

Subjects:

Jamaica--Civilization--African Influences, Jamaica--Colonial Influence, Jamaica--History--Insurrection, 1865, Jamaica--Social Life And Customs, Nationalism--Jamaica--History, Politics And Culture--Jamaica, Social Classes--Jamaica, Social Conflict--Jamaica--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.
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Community Formation: A Study of the "Village" in Postemancipation Jamaica

Book by Audley G. Reid; Canoe Press, 2000

Subjects:

Peasantry--Jamaica--19th Century, Slaves--Emancipation--Jamaica, Village Communities--Jamaica--History--19th Century, Villages--Jamaica--History--19th Century

Collections: Entire Library

Can community formation be used as a paradigm for "national purpose and discipline in the Jamaica of today"? Reid clearly states in his Introduction that it can, and he shows how the 'free villages' of post-emancipation Jamaica serve as models and historical examples for Jamaica at the close of the ...
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Can community formation be used as a paradigm for "national purpose and discipline in the Jamaica of today"? Reid clearly states in his Introduction that it can, and he shows how the 'free villages' of post-emancipation Jamaica serve as models and historical examples for Jamaica at the close of the twentieth century. The villages exemplified community spirit, industry, discipline and social, political and economic cooperation.
This is the first full-scale study of the settlement of 'free villages' in Jamaica after Emancipation, and of community patterns and community life during this important formative period in Jamaica that saw the crumbling of slave society, the collapse of an economy based on sugar and the emergence of a "new system of relations".
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In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86

Book by Douglas Hall; University of the West Indies Press, 1999

Subjects:

Plantation Life--Jamaica--History--Sources, Slavery--Jamaica--History--Sources, Thistlewood, Thomas--1721-1786--Diaries

Collections: History, Entire Library

Douglas Hall documents the life of Thomas Thistlewood who came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England, in 1750 and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his activities, which reflect a rich and exiting ...
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Douglas Hall documents the life of Thomas Thistlewood who came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England, in 1750 and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his activities, which reflect a rich and exiting chronicle of plantation life - its people, social life, agricultural techniques, medicinal remedies, and relations between slaves and owners. Historians and students interested in the social history of mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica, the Tacky Rebellion, and the tenuous relations between planters and the Maroons should read this book.
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Journal Articles on: jamaica history

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"I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure": Gender Ideologies and Child Murder in Post-Emancipation Jamaica

Journal article by Henrice Altink; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

Illegitimacy--Social aspects, Infanticide--Cases, Infanticide--History, Jamaica--History, Jamaicans--Demographic aspects, Women--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women--Health aspects, Women--Psychological aspects

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

...gap in the scholarship on Jamaican history. Most scholars have concentrated...are important watersheds in Jamaican history. The rebellion led to a Crown...publication of these histories, Jamaicas post-1865 history was mainly an economic and...
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Contradictory Socio-Economic Consequences of Structural Adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica

Journal article by Colin Clarke, David Howard; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 172, 2006

Subjects:

Jamaica--Economic aspects, Jamaica--Political aspects, Jamaica--Social aspects, Social economics--Research, Socioeconomics--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...to remittances to Jamaica from emigrants overseas...interrupted a recent history of squatter upgrading...McDonald S A 2002 The Jamaica food stamp programme...inequality in Oaxaca: a history of resistance and...ed The Cambridge history of Latin America...unemployment in Jamaica: a modern synthesis...
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What the Zeeks Uprising Reveals: Development Issues, Moral Economy, and the Urban Lumpenproletariat in Jamaica

Journal article by Charles Price; Urban Anthropology & Studies of Cultural Systems & World Economic Development, Vol. 33, 2004

Subjects:

Jamaica--Description and travel, Politics--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Uprisings of the Proletariat. Jamaica Gleaner, October 23. Bussard, Robert...Idea of the Lumpenproletariat. History of European Ideas 8(6): 675-692...Political Culture and the Public Use of History in Jamaica. Identities 8(3): 413-440. Jamaica...
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Formal Education of Children in Jamaica

Journal article by Johnetta Wade Morrison, Valentine Milner; Childhood Education, Vol. 71, 1995

Subjects:

Early childhood education--Jamaica, Jamaica--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...considers that Jamaica spends 49 percent of its current budget on debt servicing. The History of Early Education The education of very young Jamaican children began in the late 19th century when a few women teachers were allowed to teach...
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Sex, Love, Revenge, and Murder in "Away Down in Jamaica": A Lost Short Story by Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton)

Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 21, 2004

Subjects:

Away Down in Jamaica (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, Far, Sui Sin--Works, Short stories--Criticism and interpretation, Wharton, Edith--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pause to wonder how Clarissas specific ethnicity and race (Jamaican, Black) inflects her portrayal. Women who kill are in fact...that she has a somewhat more passionate nature and "romantic history" than other women Sui Sin Far portrays (4), but it does change...

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Magazine Articles on: jamaica history

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Francis Williams: An Eighteenth-Century Tertium Quid

Magazine article by Michele Valerie Ronnick; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 61, April 1998

Subjects:

Jamaica--History, Slavery--History, Williams, Francis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...achievements of Williams in The History of Jamaica by Edward Long, who was a member...through a single source, Longs History of Jamaica. It is not the first example...72. (2) Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (London: T. Lownudes, 1774...
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The Maroon Culture of Endurance

Magazine article by Heidi Reidell; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 42, January 1990

Subjects:

Blacks--Jamaica, Fugitive slaves--Jamaica, Jamaica--History, Maroons--Jamaica

Collections: Entire Library

...Jamacias runaway Maroons is as old as the history of slavery in the Americas. Maroons...wherever slavery did. But only in Jamaica, where courage, cunning and audacious...work on a book, Hidden Treasures, a history of Jamaicas south coast.
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Crossing Cultures: Jamaica's Arts, Heritage and History Transform the Traditional Caribbean Vacation

Magazine article by Marjorie Whigham-Desir; Black Enterprise, Vol. 26, May 1996

Subjects:

Caribbean Heritagefest--1996, Jamaica--Description and travel, Maroons--Jamaica, Moore Town, Jamaica--History, Port Antonio, Jamaica--Description and travel

Collections: History, Entire Library

Crossing cultures: Jamaicas arts, heritage and history transform the traditional...freshwater sanctuary tracing Jamaicas history, from its Arawak Indian...if art, culture and history arent enough to get you to Jamaica, theres always sun...
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How I Became a Futurist: A Sociologist Tells How Jamaica's Struggle for Nationhood Helped Turn Him toward the Future

Magazine article by Wendell Bell; The Futurist, Vol. 31, May-June 1997

Subjects:

Jamaica--History

Collections: Entire Library

...have, what kind of people Jamaicans should strive to be, what their new national history ought to be, and what foreign...totally caught up in this history in the making and changed...decisions of nationhood in Jamaica. Over the next 25 years...
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Cromwell and the Conquest of Jamaica: James Robertson Investigates the Lord Protector's Ambitious Plans for War with Spain in the Caribbean

Magazine article by James Robertson; History Today, Vol. 55, May 2005

Subjects:

Cromwell, Oliver--Foreign policy, Cromwell, Oliver--Planning, Jamaica--Military aspects, Military occupation--History, Spain--Military aspects, War--History, War--Planning, Wars--History, Wars--Planning

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in the History of the British Atlantic World...Francisco Morales Padon, Spanish Jamaica (trans.), Patrick Bryan, (Kingston...Ancient Glory! Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000 (Ian Randle, 2005...Robertson is a lecturer in History at the University of the West...

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Newspaper Articles on: jamaica history

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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

...TRIP TO CARIBBEAN; Three-Week Jamaica Visit Is Paid for by European...TROUBLESOME pupils with a history of truancy and bad behaviour...The seven teenagers fly to Jamaica today on a pounds 5,000 visit...after seeing how much better Jamaican pupils perform despite their...
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Cricket Bowled by Reggae Boyz; the World Game: Jamaica Throw a Party

Newspaper article by Frank Wiechula; The Mirror (London, England), November 18, 1997

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

...of celebrations in the islands history. For many Jamaicans Sunday was their biggest event...greatest day in our sporting history". The soccer aces have been...surpassed the achievement of the Jamaican bobsleigh team which famously...
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Can James Bond Save Jamaica? Drugs, Gang Warfare and Threats from a Communist Neighbour - No Wonder Fantasy Island Has Called in 007

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 8, 1996

Subjects:

Fleming, Ian

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

...accepted this as the great threat to its future prosperity. Jamaica has long been a jumping-off point for the few US residents...their own government to visit Havana. With a long pre-war history when Cuba was to Americans what Cannes was to Britons and with...
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TRAVEL: COOK'S TOUR OF JAMAICA; Top Chef Goes Back to His Roots to Check out Caribbean Cuisine

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 5, 2008

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

...fraction of that sum. Jamaican cooking isborn of...influences as rich as the history of the island itself...We stayed at the Jamaica Pegasus, but also...get an evocative history of the industry...where they have made Jamaica rum since 1749...journey through the history of the drink and...
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Jamaica In-Crowd Eye Mark

Newspaper article by Hugh O'Reilly; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 30, 1997

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

...world." Now the man who found fame on the rebound with Shels, could be in line to enrich the history of Dublins oldest club. "If the Jamaicans are serious about need recruiting more skill and experience, they could do worse than look at Mark...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jamaica history

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Jamaica

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...two main political parties: the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) generally favors...is divided into 14 parishes. History History to Independence Sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1494, Jamaica was conquered and settled in 1509...
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Garvey, Marcus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...1907) an unsuccessful printers strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa...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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Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...British statesman, son of the 7th earl. He served as governor of Jamaica (1842 46) and in 1847 was appointed governor-general of Canada...1894 99) during an extremely troubled period in that countrys history and served as colonial secretary from 1905 to 1908...

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