History of Jamaica
Author: Clinton Vane de Brosse Black
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 256
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Author: Clinton Vane de Brosse Black
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Knight
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 0813945577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 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: Kathleen E. A. Monteith
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789766401085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.
Author: Thibault Ehrengardt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: William James Gardner
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Leslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1108083439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1740 second edition covers Jamaica's early colonial history, its laws, the lives of governors, and the exploits of pirates.
Author: 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: 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: Sir Philip Manderson Sherlock
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Caribbean rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the centre of the story; for by claiming Africa as homeland, Jamaicans gain a sense of historical continuity, of identity, and of roots.
Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exposure of women as agents of history - a path-breaking achievement at a time when Caribbean historiography ignored women. The white woman consumed, the coloured woman served and the black woman laboured.