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In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social
Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of
class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social
stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since
independence in 1962. He also assesses the strains - created by the
doubling of the population - on labour and housing markets, which
are themselves important ingredients in urban social
stratification. Special attention is also given to colour, class,
and race segregation, to the formation of the Kingston ghetto, to
the role of politics in the creation of zones of violence and drug
trading in downtown Kingston, and to the contribution of the arts
to the evolution of national culture. A special feature is the
inclusion of multiple maps produced and compiled using GIS
(geographical information systems). The book concludes with a
comparison with the post-colonial urban problems of South Africa
and Brazil, and an evalution of the de-colonization of Kingston.
This book offers a detailed picture of Jamaica before and after
independence. A 1961 journal sheds light on the political and
social context before independence, while a 1968 journal shows how
independence dissolved dissident forces and identifies the origins
of Jamaica's current two party politics.
Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around
pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as
a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World
and metropolitan contexts. The field is opened up by a
re-examination of the seminal work of J.S. Furnivall and M.G. Smith
and by exploring the significance of racial and cultural diversity
in colonial, post-colonial and metropolitan situations. Case
studies written by specialists are presented in each chapter; they
represent a wide range of locales, indicating the global nature of
the theme and emphasising the variable significance of ethnicity in
different situations.
This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters
as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in
Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes
and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural
communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two
leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume:
decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the
post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the
conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these
developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban
revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.
First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
"Imagine sneaking away to spend seven days with the most famous
woman in the world..."
In 1956, fresh from Oxford University, twenty-three-year-old
Colin Clark began work as a lowly assistant on the set of "The
Prince and the Showgirl," the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier
with Marilyn Monroe. The blonde bombshell and the legendary actor
were ill suited from the start. Monroe, on honeymoon with her new
husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, was insecure,
often late, and heavily medicated on pills. Olivier, obsessively
punctual, had no patience for Monroe and the production became
chaotic. Clark recorded it all in two unforgettable diaries--the
first a charming fly-on-the- wall account of life as a gofer on the
set; the other a heartfelt, intimate, and astonishing remembrance
of the week Clark spent escorting Monroe around England, earning
the trust and affection of one of the most desirable women in the
world. Published together here for the first time, the books are
the basis for the upcoming major motion picture "My Week with
Marilyn" starring Michelle Williams, Judi Dench, and Kenneth
Branagh.
England was abuzz when Monroe arrived to shoot "The Prince and
the Showgirl." She hoped working with the legendary Olivier would
give her acting further credibility, while he hoped the film would
give his career a boost at the box office and some Hollywood
glamour. But Monroe, feeling abandoned when Miller left the country
for Paris, became difficult on the set. Clark was perceptive in his
assessment of what seemed to be going wrong in Monroe's life: too
many hangers-on, intense insecurity, and too many pills. Olivier,
meanwhile, was impatient and condescending toward her. At a certain
point, feeling isolated and overwhelmed, Monroe turned her
attention to Clark, who gave her comfort and solace. Before long,
she escaped the set and a remarkable true adventure took place.
Monroe and Clark spent an innocent week together in the English
countryside and Clark became her confidant and ally. And, like any
man would be expected to, he fell a bit in love. Clark understood
how best to handle Monroe and became Olivier's only hope of getting
the film finished. Before long, young Colin was in over his head,
and his heart may well have been broken by the world's biggest
movie star.
A beguiling memoir that reads like a fable, "My Week with
Marilyn" is above all a love letter to one of our most enduring
icons.
First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the
ambivalence of Lawrence's attitude towards corruption. Clarke
demonstrates that Lawrence's attitude to 'will' and to sensational
or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the
same time this is a study of Lawrence's debt as a novelist to the
English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the
second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the
major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose
attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated,
above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and
disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the
ambivalence of Lawrence's attitude towards corruption. Clarke
demonstrates that Lawrence's attitude to 'will' and to sensational
or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the
same time this is a study of Lawrence's debt as a novelist to the
English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the
second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the
major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose
attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated,
above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and
disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters
as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in
Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes
and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural
communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two
leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume:
decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the
post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the
conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these
developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban
revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.
Originally published in 1933, this book presents a study of the
relation between the size and efficiency of industries, with
special reference to the history of selected British and American
industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The text covers the London building industry, the
Lancashire cotton industry, the Cleveland pig iron industry, the
Massachusetts cotton industry and the American pig iron industry.
This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in economic
history and industrial development.
The South Asian diaspora came into being with the end of slavery in
the British Empire. Huge numbers of labourers were recruited in the
Indian sub-continent for indentured labour schemes, notably in
Southeast Asia, South and East Africa, Mauritius, Fiji and the
Caribbean, and also in French colonies. Later there were waves of
'free' immigration to these and other countries, including, in the
last generation, Britain itself and North America. This set of
essays by scholars from several different disciplines offers
detailed accounts of the experience of the migrant communities, and
the editors contribute valuable overviews. Originally published in
1990, it is an indispensable resource for scholars interested in
the diaspora, or concerned with problems of migration.
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