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Jamaica -- History.
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Jamaica -- Civilization.
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Jamaica -- Politics and government.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xix, 515 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Content |
text |
| Media |
computer |
| Carrier |
online resource |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I. Becoming Jamaica. -- Taíno society / Kit W. Wesler -- Taíno worship / Ramón Pané -- The first European account of Jamaica / Andrés Bernáldez -- A Spanish settler in Jamaica / Pedro de Maçuelo -- The Spanish capital / James Robertson -- Slavery in Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Morales Padrón -- A description of Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Marques de Villalobos -- The economy of Spanish Jamaica / Alonzo de Miranda -- The western design / Don Juan Ramirez -- Mountains of gold turned into dross / Anonymous -- The establishment of Maroon society / Robert Sedgwicke and William Goodson – II. From English conquest to slave society. -- Pirate stronghold / Nuala Zahedieh -- Port Royal destroyed / Anonymous -- White servants / Government of Jamaica -- The rise of slave society / Richard S. Dunn -- African music in Jamaica / Hans Sloane -- A Maroon tradition / collected by Kenneth M. Bilby -- Treaty between the British and the Maroons / Anonymous -- African arrivals / Audra A. Diptee -- Spiritual terror / Vincent Brown -- Two enslaved lives / Trevor Burnard -- Increase and decrease / managers of Haughton Tower Estate -- A free Black poet / Francis Williams -- Jamaica talk / Frederic G. Cassidy -- The War of 1760-1761 / Edward Long -- III. Enlightenment Slavery. -- Creole society / Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite -- Cane and coffee / Robert Charles Dallas -- Women's and men's work under slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair -- Although a slave me is born and bred / recorded by J.B. Moreton -- Capture and enslavement / Archibald John Monteith -- The Black church / George Liele -- British missionaries / Mary Turner -- The Second Maroon War / representatives of the Trelawney Town Maroons -- Jonkanoo / Michael Scott -- Provision grounds / Sidney Mintz -- The Liberation War of 1831 / Henry Bleby -- Apprenticeship and its conflicts / Diana Paton -- An apprentice's story / James Williams -- Because of 1833 / Andrew Salkey -- IV. Colonial Freedom. -- Free villages / Jean Besson -- Cholera / Samuel Jones -- Black voters / Swithin Wilmot -- Religion after slavery / Hope Waddell -- Indentured workers / Verene Shepherd -- The Morant Bay Rebellion / Gad Heuman -- Dear Lucy / George William Gordon -- Vindicating the race / Rev. R. Gordon -- August Town craze / Frederick S. Sanguinetti -- Anansi and the tiger / Walter Jekyll -- The 1907 earthquake / Dick Chislett -- Traveling from Kingston to Montego Bay / Herbert de Lisser -- V. Jamaica arise. -- Life in rural Jamaica / Lorna Goodison -- An amazing island / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcus Garvey comes to the United States / Marcus Garvey -- Jamaica and the Great War / Daily Gleaner -- Returning from war / Glenford Howe -- Self government for Jamaica / W. Adolphe Roberts -- The 1938 Rebellion / Richard Hart -- Remembering the Rebellion / Lucius Watson -- Now we know / Roger Mais -- Cookshop culture / Planters' Punch -- My mother who fathered me / Edith Clarke -- The origins of dreadlocks / Barry Chevannes -- Pleasure Island / Esther Chapman -- Hurricane Charlie / Spotlight -- Jamaican East Indians / Laxmi and Ajai Mansingh -- Blackness and beauty / Rochelle Rowe -- Chinese Jamaica / Easton Lee -- Bauxite / Sherry Keith and Robert Girling -- The West Indies Federation / Michele A. Johnson -- Rastafari and the new nation / Michael G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford -- VI. Independence and After. -- A date with destiny / Daily Gleaner -- The meaning of independence / Government of Jamaica -- The assets we have / Norman Washington Manley -- Rastafari and the Coral Gardens incident / John Maxwell and Mortimo Togo Desta Planno -- Country boy / The Heptones -- How to be a "face-man" / The Star -- Cancer in West Kingston / Edward Seaga -- Birth of the sound system / Norman C. Stolzoff -- Rudie, oh Rudie! / Garth White -- Revisited / Rupert Lewis -- The visual arts / Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves -- Better mus' come / Delroy Wilson -- Bob Marley's fame / Ed McCormack -- Ganja smoking / Daily News -- We are not for sale / Michael Manley -- Zig-zag politics and the IMF / George L. Beckford -- Yesterday/today/tomorrow / Oku Onuora -- Equal rights / Committee of Women for Progress -- A helper's story / Sistren, with Honor Ford Smith -- VII. Jamaica in the age of neoliberalism. -- Nine months of turmoil / Barbara Nelson -- Seaga v. Manley, Carl Stone -- Born fi' dead / Laurie Gunst -- Sunsplash 1984 / Roger Steffens -- Walking jewellery store / Yellowman -- Hurricane story / Olive Senior -- Wild Gilbert / Lloyd Lovindeer -- Showing skin teeth / A. Lynn Bolles -- Slackness / Lady Saw -- Downtown ladies / Gina A. Ulysse -- Jamaica's shame / Thomas Glave -- Woman time now / H.G. Helps -- A wild ride / Robert Lalah -- Skin bleaching / Carolyn Cooper -- Tragedy in Tivoli / W. Earl Witter and Livern Barrett -- The cell phone and the economy of communication / Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller -- Unsustainable development / Esther Figueroa -- The case for reparations / P.J. Patterson -- These islands of love and hate / Kei Miller -- VIII. Jamaicans in the World. -- In the Canal Zone / Alfred Mitchell S. -- A diaspora story / Lok C.D. Siu and Fernando Jackson -- Going to Cuba / "Man-Boy" -- Tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- Little brown girl / Una Marson -- Colonization in reverse / Louise Bennett -- A farmworker in Florida / Delroy Livingston -- Reggae and possible Africas / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Canadian-Jamaican / Carl E. James and Andrea Davis -- A maid in New York City / Shellee Colen -- My great shun / Mutabaruka -- Homecomers / C.S. Reid -- Return to Jamaica / Emma Brooker -- Things change / Buju Banton -- Jamaica to the world / Ingrid Brown. |
| Alt author |
Paton, Diana, 1969- editor.
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Smith, Matthew J. (Caribbean history scholar), editor.
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| ISBN |
1478013095 |
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9781478013099 (electronic bk.) |
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9781478010494 (hardcover) |
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1478010495 (hardcover) |
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9781478011514 (paperback) |
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1478011513 (paperback) |
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