Kenneth Morgan's history of Jamaica is a social, economic,
political, and cultural assessment of the island's most important
periods and themes over the past millennium. This includes the
island's development before 1500, with detailed material on the
Taino society; the two centuries of slavery and its aftermath
between 1660 and 1860; the continuance of colonialism between 1860
and 1945; the background to Jamaican independence between 1945 and
1960; and the evolution of Jamaica as an independent nation since
the early 1960s. Throughout, Morgan discusses important themes such
as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism, and the
unbalanced social structure that existed for much of Jamaica's
history – the small, overwhelmingly white elite overseeing and
controlling the lives of black and brown people beneath them on the
social scale. Ending with an assessment of the contemporary period,
this work offers an authoritative, up-to-date history of Jamaica.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Concise Histories |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Kenneth Morgan
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-47225-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-108-47225-7 |
Barcode: |
9781108472258 |
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