Historic Jamaica from the Air
Author: Jack Tyndale-Biscoe
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 88
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Author: Jack Tyndale-Biscoe
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Buisseret
Publisher: Ian Randle Pub
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9789768100641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Historian David Buisseret teams up with aerial photographer Jack Tyndale-Biscoe in this book to produce a predominantly visual portrait of Jamaica from pre-Columbian times to the modern period." "Aerial photos and satellite images reveal a variety of historical processes much less visible from the ground while the explanatory maps give both the contemporary material and the photos a sharper focus and force the author to ask fresh questions of those images. With this unique combination of text and images Historic Jamaica From the Air brings to life Jamaica's rich history as well as its modern development."--Jacket.
Author: Zakiya McKenzie
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 191423605X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory was written—England captured Jamaica from the Spaniards under Oliver Cromwell in 1655. Much of this history has been retold by Edward Long, best known for his first socio-economic and political study The History of Jamaica. His polemic supported the enslavement of African and Caribbean people and the monopolies and monocultures played out through the natural environment. These testimonies address some of Long's claims. A slave woman tells of the naming of Catherine's Peak and the erasure of the achievements of Black Jamaicans in the field of natural history. A mystic takes us back to the Spanish occupation. The maroons Juan de Bolas and Juan de Serras grieve their fate and the tragic future that came with sugarcane. These are imaginings of what the people who lived through this wrestling of Jamaica might have said, given the chance.
Author: David Buisseret
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 73
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marlon James
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1594633940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1108472257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative social, economic, political, and cultural history of Jamaica.
Author: Harriet Manning Whitcomb
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain" by Harriet Manning Whitcomb Jamaica Plain is a diverse, tight-knit neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. In this book, Whitcomb dives into the history of this fascinating area through the words and memories of those who called it home. Written as part of a memorial project, the book continues to capture the essence of one of Boston's most unique neighborhoods.
Author: Sasha Turner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-05-05
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 081229405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
Author: Peter Polack
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017-06-23
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1443873756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films. The list of movies where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred. This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors. As such, Jamaica, the Land of Film provides a comprehensive history which will be of great interest to all cinema aficionados and fans of Caribbean history.
Author: Sir Hans Sloane
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Published: 1707
Total Pages: 922
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