Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766401085
Contents
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Dedication
Introduction
Part 1. Sources and Historiography
1. Some Primary Sources for the Study of Jamaican History: An Introduction
2. "Stories" and "Histories" in Late-Seventeenth-Century Jamaica
3. Early Post-Emancipation Jamaica: The Historiography of Plantation Culture, 1834-1865
Part 2. Society, Culture and Heritage
4. Not a Place for Whites? Demographic Failure and Settlement in Comparative Context: Jamaica, 1655-1780
5. The Character of African-Jamaican Culture
6. Captured Shadows, Tongue-Tied Witnesses, "Compellants" and the Courts: Obya and Social Control
7. Celebrating Christmas in Jamaica, 1865-1920: From Creole Carnival to "Civilized" Convention
8. The Jamaican Bungalow: Whose Language?
9. Museum Representation of the Taino and Cultural Power in the Columbian Quincentenary
Part 3. Economy, Labour and Politics
10. "The Grand Mart of the Island": The Economic Function of Kingston, Jamaica in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
11. Steam for Sugar-Cane Milling: The Diffusion of the Boulton and Watt Stationary Steam Engine to the Jamaican Sugar Industry, 1809-1830
12. The Labour Regimen on Jamaican Coffee Plantations during Slavery
13. The Afro-Jamaican and the Internal Marketing System: Kingston, 1780-1834
14. "To Begin the World Again": Responses to Emancipation at Friendship and Greenwich Estate, Jamaica
15. From Bondage to Political Office: Blacks and Vestry Politics in Two Jamaican Parishes, Kingston and St David, 1831-1865
16. Land Settlement in Jamaica, 1923-1949
17. Race, Class and Labour Politics in Colonial Jamaica, 1900-1934
18. Nationalism and Jamaican Political Thought
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