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The Kebra Negast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica
Gerald Hausman, Ziggy Marley (Illustrator),Hardcover - REV, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pages:208,Pub by...Read more
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Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers
Since its emergence from the ghettoes of West Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930s, the Rastafarian Movement has been...Read more
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Road to Sustained Growth in Jamaica
This report attempts to explain the paradoxes and potential of Jamaica's economic history, and concludes that one...Read more
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Jamaica in 1850
After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate...Read more
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Jamaica Meltdown: Indigenous Financial Sector Crash 1996
Jamaica Meltdown provides previously untold details of the 1990s financial sector crash—Jamaica’s most serious...Read more
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Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
A Jurisprudence of Power reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the...Read more
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Jamaica in 1850
After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate...Read more
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The West Indies in 1837
This 1838 text is described as Being the Journal of a Visit to Antigua, Monserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, Barbados and...Read more
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The History of Jamaica
This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of...Read more
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Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972
Obika Gray,Paperback, English-language edition,Pages:304,Pub by University of Tennessee Press
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Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica
Gad J. Heuman,Paperback, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pages:222,Pub by University of Tennessee Press
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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica
Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica....Read more
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Distant Neighbors in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Jamaica in Comparative Perspective
This study in comparative politics provides a comparison and contrast in the political development of two countries...Read more
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Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865
The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important...Read more
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Jamaica
Explores the geography, history, government, economy, and culture of Jamaica.
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Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music
When Jamaica gained independence in 1962 to the electrifying soundtrack of ska, no-one foresaw the impact Jamaican...Read more
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Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica
In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975), Colin Clarke...Read more
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