Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles
Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles

Author: Emel Thomas

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1623564301

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Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles provides a contemporary survey of education development and key educational issues in the region. The chapters cover: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Eustatius and Saint Maarteen), Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The book includes discussions of the impact of local, regional and global occurrences, including social, political and geographical events, on education systems and schooling in the region. As a whole, the book provides a comprehensive reference resource for contemporary education policies in the Caribbean, and explores some of the problems these countries face during the process of development. It is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 6
General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 6

Author: NA NA

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 1002

ISBN-13: 1349737763

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Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.

General History of the Caribbean
General History of the Caribbean

Author: Higman, B.W.

Publisher: UNESCO Publishing

Published: 1905-06-21

Total Pages: 1002

ISBN-13: 9231033603

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This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.

Revolutionary Emancipation
Revolutionary Emancipation

Author: Claudius K. Fergus

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2013-06-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0807149896

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Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, Tacky's War -- the largest and most destructive rebellion of enslaved peoples in the Americas prior to the Haitian Revolution -- provided the rationale for abolition and reform of the colonial system. Fergus shows that following Tacky's War, British colonies in the West Indies sought political preservation under state-regulated amelioration of slavery. He further contends that abolitionists' successes -- from partial to general prohibition of the slave trade -- hinged more on the economic benefits of creolizing slave labor and the costs of preserving the colonies from destructive emancipation rebellions than on a conviction of justice and humanity for Africans. In the end, Fergus maintains, slaves' commitment to revolutionary emancipation kept colonial focus on reforming the slave system. His study carefully dissects new evidence and reinterprets previously held beliefs, offering historians the most compelling arguments for African agency in abolitionism.

Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean
Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean

Author: Paula L. Aymer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1137561157

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This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada. The study is based upon the author’s detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own background in Barbados. The study traces the development of Pentecostal religious communities from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan Methodist movement.

Gender in Caribbean Development
Gender in Caribbean Development

Author: University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar

Publisher: Canoe Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9789768125552

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Contains 23 papers originally published in 1988 which discuss, inter alia, interdisciplinary research on models and theories of gender and development, historical perspectives of feminism, ideology and culture, and women's organization.

The Confounding Island
The Confounding Island

Author: Orlando Patterson

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0674988051

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The preeminent sociologist and National Book Award–winning author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture grapples with the paradox of his homeland: its remarkable achievements amid continuing struggles since independence. There are few places more puzzling than Jamaica. Jamaicans claim their home has more churches per square mile than any other country, yet it is one of the most murderous nations in the world. Its reggae superstars and celebrity sprinters outshine musicians and athletes in countries hundreds of times its size. Jamaica’s economy is anemic and too many of its people impoverished, yet they are, according to international surveys, some of the happiest on earth. In The Confounding Island, Orlando Patterson returns to the place of his birth to reckon with its history and culture. Patterson investigates the failures of Jamaica’s postcolonial democracy, exploring why the country has been unable to achieve broad economic growth and why its free elections and stable government have been unable to address violence and poverty. He takes us inside the island’s passion for cricket and the unparalleled international success of its local musical traditions. He offers a fresh answer to a question that has bedeviled sports fans: Why are Jamaican runners so fast? Jamaica’s successes and struggles expose something fundamental about the world we live in. If we look closely at the Jamaican example, we see the central dilemmas of globalization, economic development, poverty reduction, and postcolonial politics thrown into stark relief.