Inward Yearnings: Jamaica`s Journey to Nationhood, Colin A. Palmer

Автор: Birte Timm
Название: Nationalists Abroad: The Jamaica Progressive League and the Foundations of Jamaican Independence
ISBN: 9766378657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766378653
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Challenges the notion that demands for independence developed in Jamaica or had a strong local following. Instead, Timm posits and proves that the strongest impetus for anti-colonial demands came from a small group of expatriates in the USA, whose ideas were met with strong and persistent skepticism at all levels of Jamaican society, including the political elite.

Автор: P.J. Patterson
Название: My Political Journey: Jamaica`s Sixth Prime Minister
ISBN: 9766407010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766407018
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: My Political Journey is P.J. Patterson’s account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean, from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s. He was widely regarded as a master political strategist and universally acknowledged as an astute negotiator.Jamaica is an enigma: its global impact belies its population and geographical size. This story of one of its most exceptional citizens is an enlightening revelation of the island’s political and cultural narrative. Patterson was born in 1935, the dawn of a new era in the development of Jamaica and the Caribbean. A previously disenfranchised population would gain a voice through universal adult suffrage and have a say in the direction of the nation’s affairs. Within a few decades, an independent nation would emerge to make a significant impact on the global landscape. Patterson is both a product of this new Jamaica and one of its architects, and his is a compelling and intimate account of a dramatic era for the young nation.P.J. Patterson led his country with distinction, implementing policies and programmes to foster social renewal and the development of a modern Jamaica that was prepared to face the challenges of the new millennium. Throughout his career in the People’s National Party, he gained international respect through the pivotal roles he played in the advancement of the causes of the developing countries of the world. My Political Journey recounts his performance at the national, regional and global levels and is a fascinating record of a nation’s postcolonial growth.

Автор: Verene A. Shepherd
Название: The Gibson Relays: History & Impact on Jamaica`s Sports Culture and Social Development
ISBN: 9766379483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766379483
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Описание: The Gibson Relays is arguably the best run track and field meet in Jamaica, and this annual relay carnival is also the longest-running athletic event in Jamaica, next to the ISSA Boys and Girls Championships.In its first 40 years of existence, the driving force behind the Gibson Relays was Teddy McCook, who created an organization in the Gibson Relays Organizing Committee (GROC) that has maintained the high standards of efficiency, punctuality, and dedication that have come to characterize the Relays. Today, they are fittingly named the Gibson McCook Relays.Having assumed the mantle of leadership of the GROC, current Chairman, Professor Rainford Wilks, who along with his colleagues, conceived the idea of producing a history of the Gibson Relays that would not only be a tribute to the Gibson and McCook memory but would also record the highlights and capture the spirit of the Relays over its 40 years. This history of the Gibson Relays incorporates its philosophy and the work that has gone into building a world-class branded event. Readers are presented with a complete record of every race run, highlights of outstanding performances, and analyses of the major trends in school performance and participation. But that is not all; the history of the Gibson Relays is recounted and analyzed in the context of the development of track and field athletics in Jamaica, as well as its broader social context including a discussion of the role of gender in sports.The work is copiously illustrated with archival photographs and memorabilia from the early years, as well more familiar scenes from later years which capture action on the track, as well as the personalities who plan throughout the year and execute on the day of each meet.The Gibson Relays Organizing Committee is pleased to present this book to the schools and institutions that participate, the individuals and sponsors who serve and support, and the tens of thousands of fans who have helped to make the Gibson Relays their event of choice.

Автор: McEnroe
Название: From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico
ISBN: 1107690714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107690714
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book offers a new interpretation of Indian government, citizenship and military service in the Spanish Empire.

Автор: Barbara Arneil
Название: Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony
ISBN: 0198803427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198803423
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This volume examines `domestic colonialism` of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and analyzes domestic colonies empirically - across several countries using primary, archival, and secondary sources - and theoretically, through the writings of leading thinkers of the period.

Автор: Price Charles
Название: Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
ISBN: 081476746X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814767467
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religion
So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.
Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence. By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.
Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement’s identity—from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness—have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.

Автор: Gardner
Название: The History of Jamaica
ISBN: 0415760992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415760997
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and a selection of pamphlet literature.

Автор: Maria A. Robinson-Smith
Название: Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity
ISBN: 9766406545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766406547
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Maria A. Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over Jamaica, engaging in the same practices, is a symbolic homeland where people celebrate their Africanness and sustain the collective memory of Revivalists.Revival iconography is explored through its many modes: visual, sound and movement. Seals, symbols and colour symbolism are presented as a representation of the repertoire of images that make up the Revival iconography. Revival cosmology in the rituals and ceremonies are explored and the spaces created by the seals are treated as liminal ones for the enactment of cultural performances. Smith makes the point that the iconography makes it possible for Revivalists to interpret events and rituals in much the same way across Jamaica. Iconography is the symbolic language and carrier of culture that is central to the practice and production of shared meanings, and this language gives Revivalists a sense of identity. The Revival iconography stores information that makes it possible for Revivalists to reconnect with African metaphysics, thus reclaiming the African self.

Автор: Tim Barringer, Wayne Modest
Название: Victorian Jamaica
ISBN: 0822360535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822360537
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Автор: Buckridge Steeve O.
Название: The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750-1890
ISBN: 9766401438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766401436
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: his book is a study of how African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of resistance to slavery and accommodation to white culture in pre and post-emancipation society. Africans brought aspects of their culture such as folklore, music, language, religion and dress with them to the Americas.

Автор: Lawrence
Название: Business Renewal And Performance In Jamaica
ISBN: 9766404984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766404987
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Описание: Many viable businesses in Jamaica are in need of turnaround from losses and financial distress. This book provides solutions from a new lens - a simple, yet highly effective set of profit pathways developed from a sharp review of international literature and exploration of the business models of Jamaican firms.

Автор: Turner Sasha
Название: Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
ISBN: 0812249186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812249187
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It 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.