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Fractal Repair
Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
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CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781478030225
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Duke University Press
Matthew Chin interrogates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to Jamaica's reputation for homophobia and anti-queer violence.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756
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CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228018513
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.
World War II Camps in Jamaica
Evacuees, Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409258
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Between 1939 and 1947, the Caribbean island of Jamaica – then a British colony – was haven or detention centre for thousands of displaced Europeans; an often under-recognized contribution to the...
Representing Blackness
The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409197
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Dr Donna E. McFarlane Curator and Director of the Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum (2003–2017) carefully reconstructs the history of Jamaica’s museums, and the world of new museum studies...
A Brief History of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica, 1965-2016
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9789766530280
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
The foundation in 1965 of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) was the fruit of agitation by Jamaican nationalists to create an indigenous accounting institution, which would give...
Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of August Town
Race, Religion and Colonialism
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9789766409081
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Laughter is the natural response of most Jamaicans to the name Alexander Bedward, long proclaimed as the lunatic who literally attempted to fly to heaven. In Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of August...
Dead Woman Pickney
A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781771125475
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal...
Testing the Chains
Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
Price:
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9780801475283
Pub Date: May 2009
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Fractal Repair
Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781478030225
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Duke University Press
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756
CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228018513
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.
World War II Camps in Jamaica
Evacuees, Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409258
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Representing Blackness
The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409197
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
A Brief History of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica, 1965-2016
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9789766530280
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of August Town
Race, Religion and Colonialism
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9789766409081
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Dead Woman Pickney
A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781771125475
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Testing the Chains
Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9780801475283
Pub Date: May 2009
Imprint: Cornell University Press