N. W. Manley and the Making of Modern Jamaica
Author: Arnold Bertram
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9789769583573
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A Concise History of Jamaica
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1108573924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way, this authoritative work will appeal to all readers interested in the Atlantic world.
Firstborn
Author: Fred W. Kennedy
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2022-11-16
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1039142923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirstborn, which celebrates the legacy of Luis Fred Kennedy, his family and business, is a narrative that takes on a character of its own, larger than life. At the age of twenty one, after the sudden death of his father in 1930, Luis Fred became co-manager of Grace, Kennedy & Co. Ltd., a Jamaican enterprise founded by his father and Dr. John J. Grace in 1922. Serving as Governing Director (1947-1973), Luis Fred Kennedy laid the foundation for the company to become what it is today—a global consumer group, one of the largest and most innovative corporate entities in the Caribbean. The author portrays his father Luis Fred Kennedy to be a passionate nationalist, humanist, and advocate of private enterprise, one who had a positive and lasting impact on the political and economic history of Jamaica. Fred Kennedy interweaves the threads of family, business, and nation by combining historical research with his own personal stories, enhanced by interviews, illustrations, and photographs. Firstborn will interest those with ties to Jamaica or, more universally, anyone eager to learn the secrets of corporate leadership and of the characteristics of centenarian companies like GraceKennedy Ltd. that have prospered for one hundred years.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
Author: Katherine D. McCann
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 1477322787
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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Author: A. Dirk Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1108805191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.
Corporate versus National Interest in US Trade Policy
Author: Richard L. Bernal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-31
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 3030569500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International. It documents and explains how Chiquita succeeded in having the Clinton administration pursue a trade policy of forcing the European Union to dismantle its preferential banana import regime for exports from the small English-speaking Caribbean (ESC) countries. The export of bananas was critically important to the social stability and economic viability of these countries and that was in the national security interest of the United States. The experience indicates that succeeding in this goal was detrimental to U.S. national security interest in the Caribbean.
Freedom's Children
Author: Colin A. Palmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1469611694
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Jamaica
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLawyer Manley
Author: Jackie Ranston
Publisher:
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9789766400828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in a series devoted to the legal career of the Rt Excellent Norman Manley, QC, MM. This phase of his life spanned some thirty-three years and terminated when Manley became chief minister of Jamaica in 1955. During that time he won a legendary position for himself at the Jamaican Bar appearing in numerous civil and criminal cases, both at first instance, and in the appellate court. Written in narrative style from a court room perspective, First Time Up deals primarily with twenty-four of Manley's early cases from 1922 to 1925. Based on court reports, Manley's legal papers, diaries and letters, the material is revealing historically, legally and sociologically. Manley's cross-examinations were hardly ever without excitement and those of expert witnesses an intellectual treat. Witnesses offer a mass of detail about life in Jamaica in the 1920s and the verdicts dispel the assumption that Manley never lost a murder trial. The reader meets a host of Jamaican personalities, all in their early, formative years, as jurors, clients or hostile witnesses pitting their wits against Manley in the box.
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Author: Colin A. Palmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 1130
ISBN-13: 1469615754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are: Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People's National Party. Palmer sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante's collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica. Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence Palmer here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. The work details the rise and fall of Cheddi Jagan--from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, this work shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process. Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean In this first scholarly assessment of Williams (1911-1981), founder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party and the nation's first prime minister, Palmer explores his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses especially on a 14-year period of independence struggles in the Anglophone Caribbean, when Williams helped resolve regional disputes and promoted the creation of a pan-Caribbean federation.
