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G Beckford
[Paperback 2000]
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This is a revised edition of a seminal and classic work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought. This is a revised edition of a seminal... more
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Ada Ferrer
[Paperback 1999]
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Examines the tensions between racism and anti-racism in Cuba 's struggle to become a nation between 1868 and 1898. Examines the tensions between racism and anti-racism in Cuba 's struggle to become a nation between 1868 and 1898. Description: In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism... more
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Marie Agnes Sourieau ,
Kathleen M Balutansky
[Paperback 1998]
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Brings together prominent writers from the English, French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking Caribbean in an examination of creolization and its impact upon the region's literary production. The collection seeks to redefine Caribbean identity and aesthetics.... more
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Suzanne Francis Brown
[Paperback 2004]
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Founded in 1948, the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies is located in Kingston, Jamaica, and is the largest campus in the unique multi-campus, multi-island university system. Internationally known for its scholarship, the Mona campus is also renowned for its commitment to and preservation of a rich... more
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Michele A Johnson ,
Brian L Moore
[Paperback 2004]
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This superbly written book examines the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed. The authors compellingly... more
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Alan Fincham
[Paperback 2000]
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B W Higman
[Paperback 2000]
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Lawrence S Grossman
[Paperback 1998]
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This case study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere -- capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new... more
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Stephen Stuempfle
[Paperback 1996]
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Michael R Gannon ,
Allen Kurta ,
Armando Rodriguez Duran
[Paperback 2005]
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The Caribbean islands are home to some of the most unusual species of bats. A number of them are endemic, living in no other region of the world. On Puerto Rico alone, thirteen different species have been found. Bats are the only naturally occurring mammals there; all others were introduced... more
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Nana Wilson Tagoe
[Paperback 1998]
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Nana Wilson-Tagoe argues that it is in the imaginative recasting of the past, more than in one-dimensional explanations of historical processes, that we find insights in Caribbean history and that it is this recasting that has shaped Caribbean literature in the 20th century. Looking at major Anglophone Caribbean writers in... more
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Robert B Potter ,
Dennis Conway
[Paperback 1997]
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This collection of essays represents the first in-depth, scholarly treatment of housing policies and conditions throughout the Caribbean. The contributors consider both the performance of the state and the autonomous activities of the poor, making this volume an invaluable contribution to future planning and debate. The essays, each dealing with... more
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Catherine A John ,
John
[Paperback 2003]
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An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing. An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing. Clear Word and Third... more
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Barry Chevannes
[Paperback 1994]
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Interviews with 30 converts from the 1930s and 1940s are a component of Barry Chevanne's book, a look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, he is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in Rastafarian history to offer a look into a subgroup... more
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Frederic Gomes Cassidy
[Paperback 2003, 2nd Edition]
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Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been available in a paperback edition. The method and plan of the dictionary are basically those of the Oxford Eng... more
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Serwan M J Baban
[Paperback 2008]
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Landslides and flooding in the Caribbean are destructive, endemic forces that destroy homes, businesses and schools, cost millions of dollars annually and kill hundreds of men, women and children. This book promotes a holistic approach for managing geohaz... more
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B W Higman
[Hardcover 2008]
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This beautifully illustrated book by one of the Caribbean's preeminent historians sheds new light on food and cultural practices in Jamaica from the time of the earliest Taino inhabitants through the 21st century. The historical study of food and the a... more
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Hilary Beckles ,
Elsa V Goveia
[Paperback 2002]
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Curdella Forbes
[Paperback 2005]
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the works of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two important West Indian writes who are rarely analyzed together. It demystifies nationalist discourses and discourses of creolization showing that... more
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Barbara Lalla
[Paperback 2008]
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Caribbean revisioning of British literature is well established in creative work where it expresses itself in rewriting and writing back. In addition, Caribbean literary criticism has included an occasional rereading of imperial text (like Shakespeare's T... more
