| Description |
1 online resource (447 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Honour the Ancestors -- Chapter 2 On claiming our great heritage -- Chapter 3 Africa, the original homeland -- Chapter 4 From a colonial to a world perspective -- Chapter 5 The Asians colonise America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 6 Europe: Explorer, coloniser and slave master -- Chapter 7 Spanish Jamaica -- Chapter 8 Two Jamaicas emerge -- Chapter 9 Profits versus human rights -- Chapter 10 The beginning of the African diaspora -- Chapter 11 The Atlantic Slave Trade -- Chapter 12 The African-American liberation wars, 1660-1739 |
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Chapter 13 The African-Jamaican liberation wars, 1650-1800 -- Chapter 14 The sugar estate: Bastion of white power -- Chapter 15 Pens, provision grounds and higglers -- Chapter 16 Into a new age -- Chapter 17 Challenge and response, 1760-1830 -- Chapter 18 The primacy of freedom -- Chapter 19 Rebellion and emancipation -- Chapter 20 A home of their own -- Chapter 21 Towards political liberty -- Chapter 22 The people betrayed and vindicated -- Chapter 23 Robert Love points the way -- Chapter 24 Marcus Mosiah Garvey, 1887-1940 |
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Chapter 25 Building a new society: People from India, China and the Middle East -- Chapter 26 Day da light, oh -- Chapter 27 The birth of a national consciousness, 1920-44 -- Chapter 28 The founders of the nation: Marcus Garvey, Alexander Bustamante, Norman Manley -- Chapter 29 From colony to nation: Political progress and economic growth -- Chapter 30 Culture and nationhood -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I |
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J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Jamaica -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069310
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| Subject |
Jamaica
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bennett, Hazel
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Bennett
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Sherlock
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| ISBN |
9789766378158 |
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9766378150 |
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